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“If you thought 50 years ago that a father and a daughter would have PhDs from something called UNSW Canberra it would have been a foreign language.”

That’s according to Professor Tom Frame, whose 28-year-old daughter, Kelly, celebrates her PhD graduation from UNSW Canberra on Wednesday.

It will be 25 years, nearly to the day, that Kelly’s father Tom completed the first history PhD at the university campus.

Australia’s first national space mission design facility is officially being opened today by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the University of New South Wales Canberra (UNSW Canberra).

UNSW Canberra Space director, Russell Boyce says the new Australian National Concurrent Design Facility (ANCDF) complements Australian National University's spacecraft test facilities and means Canberra now has the capability to develop space missions from start to finish.

UNSW is among the top three Australian universities for graduates finding jobs, according to the latest rankings.

Of the 500 institutions published in the 2018 QS Graduate Employability Rankings, UNSW is ranked third in Australia and 36th in the world.

The QS ranking follows last month’s maximum five-star rating for ‘Getting a Job’ in the Good Universities Guide. 

The Australian Human Rights Centre (ARHCentre) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has launched On Safe Ground: A Good Practice Guide for Australian Universities today.

The report draws on the findings of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s National Student Survey on Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault released earlier this week and makes 18 recommendations, including the establishment of a national cross-university taskforce to focus on consistent policies, procedures and practices relating to sexual harassment and assaults on campus.