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Kenmore State High School year 12 student Libby Ogle (left) and Caitlin Powell (right).

How do you pick the best subjects for year 12? This tool will help

The body that crunches the numbers for every Queensland student releases a tool for “probably the most accurate ATAR prediction that you’ll get”.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt

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Dysart’s most famous building the University of Technology, Sydney Tower.

Architect much more than creator of brutalist UTS Tower

Michael Dysart was one of Australia’s most significant architects, designing everything from universities to hundreds of schools, and reshaping the project home market.

  • Tone Wheeler
The University of Sydney saw a 6.6% growth in full-time domestic students, resulting in an additional $50.2 million in revenue.

NSW universities took $3.2 billion from domestic students but are still running at a loss

Full-time domestic students cost an average of $12,000 each even though they are paying for expensive degrees, a parliamentary report has found.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
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The devil outside

It’s getting looney on the Goldie.

Former ANU chancellor Julie Bishop left her position seven months early.

‘Coercive threats’: Julie Bishop’s scathing resignation letter from ANU

“Increasingly contemptuous intervention” by the university regulator in the Australian National University’s affairs forced Julie Bishop to quit as chancellor, she says. 

  • Sally Rawsthorne
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The USA have always given us the ships

And appear to have maintained sub standards.

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Australia’s former chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel.

‘AI is insidious’: Universities urged to adopt clear AI rules after opinion article scandal

Universities should set standards for academics using AI and require a guarantee work is “human-authored” before publication, a former university chancellor says.

  • Bridie Smith and Caroline Schelle
Professor Rebekah Brown, Interim Vice-Chancellor, ANU, during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 5 June 2026. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

ANU’s $100 million drama: Effect on staff revealed in fiery Senate hearing

There were nine reported incidents at the Australian National University’s College of Arts and Social Sciences during the Renew ANU rollout.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Michael Still has stood aside.

University chancellor stands aside as ICAC inquiry looms

The watchdog is investigating whether Michael Still and others from the University of Wollongong improperly or dishonestly exercised official functions.

  • Michael Ruffles and Sally Rawsthorne
The finances of the Australian National University are also at risk from a policy change that will stop over-enrolment of domestic students, costing the university more than $9 million/year.

‘Manufactured crisis’: Bombshell report reveals flaws in controversial ANU finance plan

One of several long-anticipated investigations into the Australian National University released damning findings on Thursday.

  • Sally Rawsthorne