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Leanne Baddah on the Macquarie University campus during a school day.

Leanne is finding it difficult to make friends at uni. She’s not alone

An “epidemic of loneliness” at Australian universities is weighing on students as a vicious cycle of online learning leaves the campus experience less appealing.

  • Sally Rawsthorne

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A car park on the Macquarie University campus on Tuesday.

$4189 to park on campus? Cost-of-living crisis comes for university students

As they grapple with fees of up to $50,000 for an arts degree, uni students also face higher and higher costs for other necessities to study.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
UNSW has had their engineering course in Sydney recognised in the world’s top 10.

Revealed: The Australian universities boasting some of the best courses in the world

Four engineering courses have been ranked in the world’s top 10, while 13 data science and AI courses are in the global top 100. Search our table to see more.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
The principal has been called names and threatened.

Aggressive, entitled parents to be banned from school in behaviour crackdown

Principals will be given the power to prevent those who engage in unreasonable or threatening behaviour from coming within 25 metres of school grounds and contacting teachers.

  • Emily Kowal and Sally Rawsthorne
The first of the academics made redundant in a major restructure will leave UTS next week.

Why this Sydney university is under fire from three directions

UTS is fending off problems on multiple fronts, with staff on strike, a damning report and the disappearance of a pathway for year 12s.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Blakehurst High School captains Ethan Middleton, 17, Lisa Li, 17, Violeta Duvnjak, 16, and Matthew Liang, 16

Revealed: The state’s most improved schools in the 2025 HSC

Results from 2019 to 2025 were used to identify where was the biggest uptick in the proportion of students achieving band 4, 5 and 6 results.

  • Emily Kowal
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Mia Russo says there are no downsides to the early entry schemes.

Mia got early entry to the uni course of her dreams. But is it killing the ATAR?

Early offers give students and universities greater certainty, but there are fears they undermine the whole point of ranking HSC results.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
A bushfire map from NBC in 2013 suggested the entire country was going up in smoke.

What do migration debates and bushfires have in common? They both scare off foreign students

Government messaging must be consistent and disciplined because would-be students – and their governments – are reading.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
China’s ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, has encouraged young Australians to study and see “the real China”

‘Free flow of people’: China’s ambassador makes rare intervention in student visa debate

Both countries would benefit from more visas for international students and scholars, Beijing’s envoy says, as numbers rebound towards pre-pandemic levels.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Students on Western Sydney University’s Kingswood Campus.

Western Sydney University students and staff get unlimited access to the Herald

Vice Chancellor George Williams said the partnership would enable students and staff to access reliable, trusted news.