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Tim DoddHigher Education Editor

Tim Dodd is The Australian’s higher education editor. He has over 25 years experience as a journalist covering a wide variety of areas in public policy, economics, politics and foreign policy, including reporting from the Canberra press gallery and four years based in Jakarta as South East Asia correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. He was named 2014 Higher Education Journalist of the Year by the National Press Club.

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12/10/2018. Nano science researcher Chiara Neto in a lab at the University of Sydney Nano Institute. Chiara is researching water capture surfaces, based on naturally occurring examples such as the Neptunes pitcher plant (pictured). Britta Campion / The Australian

Water from air and other nano ambitions

The University of Sydney’s nanoscience institute has launched five ambitious research projects.

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Higher Education

Renee Hindmarsh, pictured in Melbourne, is the new head of Australian Technology Network.

Tech network engineers a China group alliance

The Australian Technology Network of universities has formed an alliance with a counterpart group in China.

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Higher Education

15/11/2016: Tony Cunningham, executive director of the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, is the new president of the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes. He believes the Medical Research Future Fund will help solve the sector's two biggest problems - perilously low success rates for medical research funding grant applications, and the failure of research grants to cover the full costs of research. Photographed in Westmead on Tuesday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Medical R&D returns $4 for every $1 spent

Annual GDP is $2.6bn larger as a result of past investment in medical research.

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Melbourne, Australia - October 15, 2015: Students around the South Lawn of Melbourne University, before the Old Arts Clock Tower.

Still not up there among the leading innovators

Australian universities have again failed to make the cut for the world’s top 100 innovative universities.

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Higher Education

a female research scientist is analysing a sample on her microscope in a microbiology lab . the lab is brightly lit with natural light . Blurred glassware at side of frame provides copy space .

Go8, AAMRI in joint plea for commitment to research fund

Top research universities have joined with medical research institutes in a push to maintain political commitment.

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Higher Education

The University of Melbourne's quantum user interface which trains students in how to program a quantum computerSupplied: University of Melbourne

Uni launches app to demystify quantum computing

The University of Melbourne will today launch a public version of an online app to learn how to program a quantum computer.

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Higher Education

Postgrads seek better income support

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations says full access would help in ‘promoting social mobility’.

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Geologists Juan Carlos and Professor Sue O'Reilly, Director of GEMOC, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney.

Look down and prosper

Australia’s hidden mineral wealth could be revealed by a “downward-looking telescope” which could peer 300km beneath the earth’s surface.

Higher Education

UQ Vice Chancellor Peter Hoj. Ideas the state Government should adopt to get the state moving. February 8th 2018. (Photo AAP/ Megan Slade)

Uni raises its hand to host Ramsay course

The University of Queensland has lodged a formal expression of interest with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation.

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Let’s not talk about it

No Australian institution has ever made the list of the world’s top 100 innovative universities, and this year is no exception.

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