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UNSW has had their engineering course in Sydney recognised in the world’s top 10.

Revealed: The Australian universities boasting some of the best courses in the world

Four engineering courses have been ranked in the world’s top 10, while 13 data science and AI courses are in the global top 100. Search our table to see more.

  • Sally Rawsthorne

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Wo are you calling stupid? Gavin Newsom greets Donald Trump at Los Angeles International Airport last year.

Too ‘dumb’ to be president? No, Mr Trump, he’s dyslexic – like Einstein and me

So Donald Trump thinks a dyslexic person can’t become US president, but America has already had such a leader.

  • Geoff Lee
The first of the academics made redundant in a major restructure will leave UTS next week.

Why this Sydney university is under fire from three directions

UTS is fending off problems on multiple fronts, with staff on strike, a damning report and the disappearance of a pathway for year 12s.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
AI is coming for white-collar jobs. What are students doing

The kids are watching the AI job carnage. What are they going to do?

Asking Gen Z to decide what career to pursue is an increasingly difficult task. Experts say there is “absolutely no occupation that is completely immune from AI”.

  • Bronte Gossling
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
Students want to know about employment outcomes, research opportunities and the effect on their career choices.

Lazy students are welching on our uni group assignments. It’s dragging down my marks

If a student isn’t at a level where they can pass a subject, they shouldn’t be able to sail by on the back of someone else’s work.

  • Saria Ratnam
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PROSH Director Hannah Bygrave and Deputy Director Xavier Anthony.

UWA’s student satirists stay sharp as fundraising tradition rounds on 95 years

Now in its 95th year, UWA’s annual satirical newspaper PROSH has raised more than $2 million for charity. 

  • Holly Thompson
The University of Melbourne.

Less work, more pay: Melbourne Uni staff list new industrial claims

Staff at one of Australia’s most prestigious universities are fighting for a four-day week and a 20 per cent pay rise.

  • Noel Towell
Bill Shorten, full of sound advice

‘Morphine drip’: Shorten warns of international student addiction, calls for new tax to fund unis

In a major intervention on the future of tertiary education, Bill Shorten says the broken higher education system forces universities to act as migration levers rather than centres of research.

  • Rob Harris
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