The Latest Breaking News from Melbourne University

In the late 1970s, when I was a fine arts student, the Melbourne University Gallery was just one room in a neo-gothic quadrangle. It wasn’t until the mid 1990s that the university commissioned Nonda Katzalidis to design a four-story concrete gallery on a narrow site fronting Swanston Street.

The two-time Miles Franklin winner adds the $60,000 prize for women and nonbinary writers to her accolades, for a novel that troubles the line between fiction and memoir

More than 97,000 employees in the university sector have been underpaid to the tune of $159 million, new analysis shows.

Enrolments in bachelor degrees dropped from 934,000 in 2016 to 815,000 in 2022

"It is clear you had an opportunity to stop, put the knife down and walk away from the argument. Instead you engaged in what you knew to be morally abhorrent behaviour."

University tutors who say they cannot plan for their futures are among the thousands of university staff to walk off the job as part of a national week of action against insecure work and wage theft.

Other lives: UK-born academic and writer who moved to Australia in 1959, becoming an expert on local government and communities

Barry Humphries began his career as a Dadaist. His street performances around Melbourne in the early 1950s foreshadowed performance art in Australia. He was the most daring student prankster Melbourne University had ever known.

Australian children spend more hours in formal school lessons than in any other country. Is it improving their education or just wearing them out?