What is innovation? According to the editor of a new report calling for the modernisation of higher education, this is a question the sector is yet to answer. Dr Rod Gutierrez, director of higher education strategy at business consultancy Lee ...

Born in 1915, Aboriginal activist Shirley Andrews studied science at the University of Melbourne in the 1930s before going on to work for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the precursor of the CSIRO. She was a staunch political ...

Michael Evans is the managing director of Dell Boomi, a cloud-based integration company that brings together the student and faculty data developed and stored in various apps and programs and across desktop and mobile devices. Evans joined Campus Review to ...

The cost of going to university has risen dramatically and is set to inflate even further, new research from the Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has shown. The ASG Planning for University Index, which modeled the rising costs of higher education ...

Converting rust belts into brain belts. That’s how Dutch economist and author Antoine van Agtmael describes the process of transitioning a nation’s economy from an uncompetitive manufacturing or resources base to one that thrives off the products developed by a ...

“If you're a straight person, you don't actually have to come out and tell a person that you're straight.” But if you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer, it’s a different story. That’s how Mark Smith, executive officer to ...

Richard James is the director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. The Centre has released a new essay collection titled Visions for Australian Tertiary Education, coedited by James with colleagues Sarah ...

Research from South Australia’s universities has found that 51 per cent of school leavers have trouble deciding on what to study at university. The study, supported by the federal Department of Education, surveyed year 12 students from 67 high schools ...

James Cook University, which has campuses in Townsville, Cairns, Singapore and Brisbane, has entered into a 3-year collaborative partnership with the North Queensland Cowboys, a rugby league team based in Townsville. Robyn McGuiggan is the deputy vice-chancellor for global strategy ...

It’s a common move for Year 12 students to take easier mathematics courses in order to maximise their ATAR. Now an expert from the University of Sydney warns this practice could become commonplace in English, thanks to the reforms of ...