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Daniel Yacoel has found his mental and physical health have improved since ending his medicinal cannabis prescription four months ago.

The $300 a week medicine Daniel feels better without

Daniel Yacoel is one of hundreds of thousands of Australians prescribed medicinal cannabis for a mental health condition but there is little evidence it works.

  • Angus Thomson

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Mia Russo says there are no downsides to the early entry schemes.

Mia got early entry to the uni course of her dreams. But is it killing the ATAR?

Early offers give students and universities greater certainty, but there are fears they undermine the whole point of ranking HSC results.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Scientists have mapped Sydney’s radioactivity for the first time.

Scientists mapped Sydney’s radiation. One busy suburb stands out

Soil samples and gamma ray readings have resulted in the first map of Sydney’s radioactivity.

  • Angus Dalton
Has AI led to the death of contract cheaters?

Did AI kill the contract cheater?

As the use of the new tech becomes increasingly palatable to universities, the ways in which students cheat is changing.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Sydney University has more than $5 billion in assets and posted a $545 billion surplus in 2024.

‘Simply poor management’: The truth about our universities’ finances

Amid job losses, chronic wage theft, course cutting and fee hikes, the post-COVID financial picture for universities appears grim. But the sector is in surplus.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Grace Binns says her university’s reaction to her sexual assault was “confronting because Monash had been an institution I’d idealise, I was thrilled to be part of it.”

‘David v Goliath’: How universities deal with sexual violence is changing

From January 1, universities will be required to do more under far-reaching legislation designed to prevent and improve responses to gender-based violence on campus.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
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The University said it was investigating “as a matter of urgency”

‘Processing error’: University of Sydney sends students’ exam results to cohort

Exam results for various courses from the economics, arts and business faculties were emailed to students along with their genuine results on Wednesday. 

  • Sally Rawsthorne

They topped the HSC decades ago. Where are they now?

As HSC students prepare to receive their results this week, we tracked down high achievers of decades gone by – from the Opera House all the way to NASA.

  • Cindy Yin
Maia Domingas, 38, has advanced cervical cancer and lies in the gynaecology unit ward waiting to see if she is eligible for treatment overseas.

‘I can’t watch women die any more’: The remarkable tactics being used to eliminate a killer

Meet the Australian medicos taking the fight to an entirely preventable cancer killing young women, leaving children motherless and causing intergenerational damage.

  • Kate Aubusson and Kate Geraghty
Maths associate professor Zsuzsanna Dansco (left) with one of her former students Emily Cooper at the University of Sydney.

When Emily walked into maths class at uni, there were only three women. Then something changed

Before 2020, female enrolments in advanced mathematics at the University of Sydney were in decline. But an intervention transformed everything.

  • Emily Kowal