Australia’s top universities' continued ascendency in the influential Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings has been tempered by a warning from the ratings agency that deregulation may have a negative impact on many of the nation’s lower-ranked institutions. Despite most ...

The path to a university qualification is being made a little clearer by a new calculator that aims to provide prospective students an instant snapshot of what credit they may have already accrued. The University of Southern Queensland, which launched ...

Technology can evolve in ways that ensure people with disabilities reap the benefits, too. In a recent speech, Apple chief Tim Cook described people with disabilities as locked in a struggle “to have their human dignity acknowledged”. All too frequently, ...

The return to less democratic forms of selecting departmental leaders puts the ability of staff to influence decision-making in jeopardy. When I first made the trip across the ditch more than 40 years ago, Australian university departments were like those I ...

The health of local teddy bears is the focus of a program under way today at the University of Tasmania’s Brighton Campus. The day involves the university’s medical students acting as Teddy Doctors, who will guide kindergarteners and their bears through scenarios ...

Efforts to wipe out doping in high-performance sport are ill conceived, doomed to failure, and – to some degree – may be better abandoned, a prominent Australian academic says. Internationally renowned medical ethicist professor Julian Savulescu spoke to Campus Review ahead of ...

Professor Maggie Walter has been appointed the inaugural pro vice-chancellor Aboriginal research and leadership at the University of Tasmania. Walter commenced in the newly created role at the start of September. UTAS indicated the appointment was partly aimed at contributing ...

American economist and Nobel laureate professor Edward C. Prescott has been appointed an adjunct distinguished professor at Australian National University’s Research School of Economics. Along with colleague Finn Kydland, Prescott was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics as recognition ...

Victoria University pro vice-chancellor professor Diane Mayer is heading to the University of Sydney after being appointed dean of the faculty of education and social work. Mayer will take up the appointment from November 3 and will bring more than ...

Macquarie University has named professor Barbara Messerle its new executive dean of the faculty of science. Messerle is a chemist with more than 25 years of experience teaching research and academic leadership – including her present position as head of the ...