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The number of students wanting to study economics at university has been falling.

Want more economics students? Drop the obsession with maths

Fewer students are studying economics at high school, and few of those go onto a dedicated economics course at university. And that’s a problem.

  • Ross Gittins

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UTS students Eryn Yates and Neeve Nagle both live in student housing.

$700 a week to share an apartment: Sydney’s student housing crisis laid bare

Students such as Neeve Nagle are spending more than half their income on rent as the cost of university accommodation skyrockets.

  • Nicholas Osiowy
Andrew Suryanto (centre) and leaders of UNSW Artificial Intelligence Society Tarushi Nandwani, Rahul Markasserithodi, Jack Ma and Ishmanbir Singh.

AI smashed the job prospects of these Sydney students. This is how they’re fighting back

Millions of jobs have come under threat since the arrival of ChatGPT two years ago. These Sydney students choose to make friends with AI.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
Teacher Dr Briony Schroor with Year 9 students at Nossal High School in Berwick.

How Melbourne’s selective schools stack up academically

The four select-entry public schools outperform many of their high-fee paying rivals – but are not without their critics.

  • Alex Crowe
A screenshot of a student holding their finger to their nose, appearing to imitate a Hitler moustache.

Outrage after uni finds salute, moustache gesture are not antisemitic

The ANU found there was no case to punish a student who appeared to give a Nazi salute, despite the deputy vice chancellor agreeing it happened “on a superficial level”.

  • Olivia Ireland
The University of Queensland was the preferred institution for four out of five of the courses offered in last week’s tertiary round.

Uni health courses attractive, as QTAC sends out thousands more offers

The second round of tertiary offers saw more than 13,778 courses offered to recent graduates and adult applicants pursuing higher education in 2025.

  • Courtney Kruk
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Deakin University’s Burwood campus and former prime minister Alfred Deakin.

Troubled history remains, but Deakin University will not change its name

The university will keep its name despite concerns from some students and faculty about the legacy of Australia’s second prime minister, Alfred Deakin.

  • Caroline Schelle
A battle is underway over the governance of Australian Catholic University

It’s Sydney and Melbourne versus Brisbane to decide the future of Australia’s Catholic Church

A wider battle over the future of the Catholic Church is fuelling conflict over the leadership and direction of an Australian university.

  • Jordan Baker
Some students who were due to start the Doctor of Dental Surgery at the University of Melbourne this year have been told they now have to wait until next year.

Melbourne University dental students ‘distraught’ after enrolments unexpectedly deferred

The university accidentally accepted more enrolments than it had capacity for and has pushed back some students’ starting date to 2026.

  • Caroline Schelle
PhD candidate Katherine Warwick.

Katherine will soon join an elite club. The price? Living on $87 a day

When Katherine hands in her PhD this year, she’s set to join an elite club of just 2 per cent of Australians. But it’s been a financial marathon to get there.

  • Christopher Harris

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