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Dr Aleksander Owczarek had a legal win at the Fair Work Commission after he was dismissed from University of Melbourne.

University of Melbourne ordered to reinstate academic sacked for sexual harassment

A Melbourne academic sacked for sexually harassing a female colleague was described as a “disaster waiting to happen” because he romanticised relationships.

  • Caroline Schelle

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Forty arts students and one engineer: What NSW politicians studied at uni

They attend university at a higher rate than their constituents, but when it comes to discipline, most MPs in the state opt for one of a small handful of subjects.

  • Cindy Yin
Patrons at 1989 Bar in Newtown

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Whether you love nightlife or nature, a guide to some of the most popular suburbs in Australia for students, plus tips for surviving first-year.

The executive pay bill of universities has been revealed.

Highest university executive pay packets revealed as crackdown looms

Institutions are spending more on top management staff and almost 200 people are taking home salaries of $500,000 or more a year.

  • Daniella White
Mia Chircop completed a La Trobe University subject while still at secondary school.

How VCE students can study at university – free

A growing number of students are doing university subjects while still at secondary school. They are getting points for it, but not the bill.

  • Bridie Smith
Top HSC students share their university choices.

The hardest university degrees to get into, and the ones where ATARs are falling

Top HSC students share their university choices – including one for whom it’s just a back-up until he can get into an American institution.

  • Daniella White and Nicholas Osiowy
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Coalition frontbencher Sarah Henderson and an ad for migration and education agents.

Senior Liberal headlines event for student visa agents before tanking migration bill

Coalition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson headlined an event for migration agents and private colleges in the weeks before tanking Labor’s high-profile student caps bill.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Paul Sakkal
HSC science dux Yeshaya Ram, Chinese and French dux Thomas Collins, English ace Grace Costigan and Warren Song, first in extension 2 maths.

The HSC subjects in which more students get better marks

The HSC scaling report belies the notion that doing easier courses is the path to success. See how every course scales in our searchable list.

  • Cindy Yin
Monash University vice chancellor Sharon Pickering: “We can’t just rely on dialling things down.”

‘You can’t just turn it off’: Monash vice chancellor on confronting hate on campus

Sharon Pickering says universities need to do more than just dial down conflicts on campus when confronting antisemitism.

  • Chip Le Grand
Students have until 4pm on December 30 to accept their first-round university offers.

First-round university offers are out. Here’s how to make the system work for you

Graduates who didn’t get their first preference still have plenty of options open to them, with the advice from experts simple – just wait.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Marissa Calligeros

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