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Dr Anne Summers founded Australia’s first women’s refuge focused on helping women escape domestic violence.

Women are still being kept in the home. But not by what you think

This one thing can be the difference between women holding on to their jobs and losing them, also derailing lifetime earnings.

  • Millie Muroi

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University fees for some students have risen by 50 per cent in just five years.

How the housing crisis is destroying university life

With part-time jobs, fewer lectures and long commutes, many university students are weighing up whether it’s worth turning up to class.

  • Michelle Arrow, Jonathan Symons and Tanya Evans
Some universities are dominated by students who graduated from private schools.

The Melbourne universities ruled by private school students – and the ones that aren’t

New data reveals the split between private and public school students enrolled at each university, as the government tries to increase representation among low-income students.

  • Daniella White
Miriam Palazzi, 18, graduated from selective school Merewether High in Newcastle and enrolled at the University of Sydney this year.

Private school bubble: Where students at Sydney’s biggest universities came from

Public school graduates made up only 41 per cent of new undergraduates at Sydney University despite efforts to increase students from disadvantaged groups.

  • Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll
Be part of the solution putting some student-friendly furniture in your flat and contacting your nearest university’s accommodation provider.

New deal gives university students unlimited access to the Herald and The Age

A premium subscription licensing deal will make independent and award-winning journalism available to university students and staff. 

  • Emily Kaine
Primary school teacher Maddy Foster says her student debt is always at the back of her mind

‘Swimming in debt’: Sydney’s $14 billion student loan burden

This map reveals which suburbs are carrying the city’s biggest HELP debts.

  • Matt Wade
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A screenshot from a TikTok video by Mia Findlay in which she names and identifies Bea McDonald as one of the students at a meeting where a report into sexual violence was torn up.

TikToker defamed female Sydney Uni student over sex assault report protest

The influencer has been ordered to pay $20,000 after accusing the woman of complicity when a group of male students tore up a report into campus sexual violence.

  • Perry Duffin
Flamenco, the passionate Spanish dance, at home in Jerez.

Queensland uni freezes dance intake amid performing arts audit

The only university in Queensland to offer a degree in dance is conducting a broad-ranging review of all its performing arts courses, and has halted its dance student intake.

  • Liz Hobday
Chair Josh Burns and deputy chair Henry Pike during a hearing.

‘Toxic environment’: Unis told to adopt controversial definition of antisemitism

The government should consider changing workplace laws to make it easier for universities to fire or discipline academics, a parliamentary inquiry report recommends.

  • Daniella White
People with HELP debts may be able to borrow more or find it easier to get a mortgage under new government plans.

Banks told to ignore student debt when weighing up home loans

Millions of Australians collectively carrying more than $43 billion in student debts have faced problems getting a mortgage. Now they may have a chance to buy a home.

  • Shane Wright

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