About Macquarie University

Macquarie is a university on the move. It's our aim to push Macquarie into the top eight research universities in Australia and the top 200 in the world. And we're well on the way - boosting our research effort and ensuring our learning and teaching is of the highest class. Our efforts have been recognised in the most recent Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities, with Macquarie moving up from 286th in the world in 2007 to 264th in 2009. This jump was the biggest improvement among the universities ranked in Australia's top 10.

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Why the Enlightenment matters

My jest earlier in the week about Prince Charles and his views on the Enlightenment has a serious side: there was a time when the public proclamations of royalty were dictats to be taken seriously, to be obeyed. Thanks to the Enlightenment, today we can treat them with the respect ...