Melbourne top dog

11/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    11 October 2012 Melbourne University's position as Australia’s leading university, as measured by various league tables, was confirmed with the release of the research-focused National Taiwan University Ranking.   Melbourne ranked 35 in the world, ahead of Sydney at 61 and University of Queensland on 72.  ANU, usually Melbourne’s closest Australian challenger, languishes in this particular ranking coming in at 172 internationally and 6th nationally Australia posted 13 institutions in the top 500 of the National Taiwan University Ranking. Australia has two top 10 institutions in specific areas: UQ in the subject area of environment and ecology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ANU, Macquarie University, Monash, Rankings, Research, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney, University of Tasmania, Univesity of Western Australia, UNSW Tagged With: ,

Limited numbers: what university rankings can (and can’t) tell us

04/10/2012 By
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The Conversation    |    4 October 2012 The release of The Times Higher Education World University Rankings will be welcomed by many people in the Australian university sector. Australia now has eight universities in the top 200, one more than last year, with the University of Adelaide joining this top grouping at 176. Six of this group improved their positions, with Melbourne University rising to 28 (up from 37 last year) while ANU, moved from 38 to 37. The other Australian universities were: Sydney University (62), Queensland University (65), UNSW (85), Monash (99) and UWA (190). Australian Institution 2011-12 rank 2012-13 rank University of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ANU, Monash, Rankings, universities, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, University of NSW, UNSW Tagged With: , , ,

Australian unis lose ground in QS World Rankings

11/09/2012 By
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The Australian   11 September 2012 Local universities are losing ground in the QS global ranking, with one less Australian university in the top 100, as international competitors build their academic reputations and begin to pursue the overseas student market in earnest. The local top seven are in the same order as last year, led by the Australian National University, which rose by two in the world rankings to 24.  The University of Queensland, fourth locally, also rose by two global rankings, to 46. But almost all other Australians lost ground.  In some cases this was marginal: the University of Sydney and Monash University, third and sixth locally, dropped only one ranking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ANU, Monash, Queensland University, Rankings, RMIT, universities, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, UNSW Tagged With: , ,

UNSW students win cyber challenge

12/04/2012 By
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UNSW News Room   12 April 2012 A team of undergraduates from the University of New South Wales has won Australia’s inaugural Cyber Defence University Challenge.  The 24-hour competition was an endurance event in computer hacking, where 15 teams from universities across Australia were required to identify IT vulnerabilities in a fictitious business.  The teams were given access to a fake company’s website, and were required to search for vulnerabilities in the web applications that might allow them to embed foreign code or extract information from their website’s database and server.    The team from UNSW will now travel to a Black Hat security conference inLas Vegas in July … [Read more...]

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