You can't create a one-size-fits-all formula for research impact. Best instead to provide environments in which creativity and innovation can flourish, writes Les Field.
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said polio could be eradicated in the next five years, during a special ABC TV Q&A program on global health hosted by UNSW.
With China investing massive amounts in universities, it's vital for the federal government to make hard policy decisions to ensure our system can be truly globally competitive, writes Professor Iain Martin.
UNSW has shot up the QS rankings to now have five subjects in the world’s top 20, with Psychology in the top 10, and Australia's highest ranking for Materials Science.
UNSW academics David Sinclair and Justine Rogers are among a stellar line up of speakers at this weekend’s TEDxSydney – the festival of ideas worth spreading.
UNSW deplores all forms of racism and discrimination and condemns in the strongest possible terms the virulent anti-Semitic comments made on social media in relation to the opening of a Max Brenner shop on campus.
How quickly the aspiration of having 10 Australian universities in the world’s top 100 can be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency, writes Professor Iain Martin.
The logic of trying to improve the quality of school education - a laudable goal - by harming university education would escape most people, writes UNSW Vice-Chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer.
