The University of Sydney

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  Honours list revealed

  Congratulations to students who received Honours at Graduation, those mentioned in the Dean's Lists of Excellence in Academic Performance, and students who have received Prizes and Scholarships.

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  Back-pain care not meeting international guidelines

  New research has found that only 20 per cent of back-pain patients receive the most effective and simple treatment approach.

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  Parents need to be quiet too

  Research has found children with below-average language skills performed better just four months after their parents made simple changes in the ways they interacted.

Food supply research
wins grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Professor Robert Park, from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Sydney, has received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and mentor five key young scientists from eastern Africa in cereal rust pathology and resistance breeding. More...

No debate!
Sydney orators are world's best

There is no debating that the University of Sydney has the best arguers in the world, our students having won the 2010 World Universities Debating Championship in Turkey. The win is our fifth, and we have now won more championships than any other university. The Championship is the largest debating tournament on the planet and is based on the British Parliamentary format. More...

Expanding relations with
Indonesia

Sydney Medical School is to sign a number of agreements with Indonesia's University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) which will promote joint research, joint training of research students and the exchange of medical students. UGM is consistently ranked as one of Indonesia's finest universities. More...

What’s on at Sydney?

• Daily arrival information sessions (DAIS) 8 - 12 February
• Sappho Old and New (public lecture) 10 February
• Kid's museum: the Year of the Tiger 14 February
• Carillon recital: dances & songs, old & new 14 February
• William Sharp Macleay's Cuban collections (public lecture) 15 February