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Varghese takes top job at Torrens

Australia’s only for-profit university chooses former top public servant and business figure Jim Varghese to be its next chancellor.

Uni of Sydney welcomes NYU

New York Uni will deliver classes on the University of Sydney campus under a new partnership agreement.

Scimita slices through the red tape

Universities are too slow to develop technology and commercialise it, says a start-up company which believes it can do better.

How research is restoring the reef

Southern Cross University’s Peter Harrison explains how his ‘coral IVF’ technique is restoring the Great Barrier Reef.

Universities have a new responsibility

Once it was controversial, now it’s accepted. Universities are responsible for helping their students to be work ready.

By ERIC KNIGHT, YVONNE BREYER

Flinders Uni signs up with Siemens

Flinders University has signed an agreement with Siemens for a technology-education partnership.

Wanted: talent in quantum tech

Australia is waking up to its huge opportunity in quantum technologies. But we need to train more people in this growing field.

By PETER TURNER

Research boost for western Sydney

Five NSW universities have banded together to create a research hub for advanced manufacturing in western Sydney.

In the history of our nation, few academics compare

Stuart Macintyre was the most outstanding Australian historian of his generation, who also gave himself unsparingly to strengthening our civic institutions.

By GRAEME DAVISON