A new OECD report shows a snapshot of higher education in Australia but our intake of international students is the finding that's grabbing headlines. The Education at a Glance 2019 report found that while they made up 14 per cent of those enrolled in ...
More »Strictly speaking | Concretes
Seen in large letters on café signs at Dubai airport, alongside burgers etc… The mind boggles as to what jaw-breaking kind of food this might be – maybe one of Heston Blumenthal’s latest inventions! Neither the Oxford Dictionary online nor ...
More »JCU ordered to pay sacked professor $1.2m
Former James Cook University professor Peter Ridd will line his pockets with $1.2 million from his former employer’s coffers should it decide not to appeal the Federal Court ruling. The marine scientist was dismissed by JCU in May last year. ...
More »Canadian uni to offer online cannabis cultivation course
A Canadian university is capitalising on the country’s decision to legalise cannabis, offering an online course on the plant’s production. The University of Guelph course is targeted towards both commercial and home growers – and, with 60 students already enrolled, ...
More »Australia’s first ‘university college’ named
A Seventh-day Adventist higher education provider in Lake Macquarie, NSW, has become Australia's first “university college”. Founded over a century ago, Avondale College of Higher Education had its new category status approved late last month by the federal government’s Tertiary Education ...
More »Making toads go viral, and other campaigns that won big at UA’s marketing awards
How do you make a toad’s genome exciting? How do you convince researchers to increase their media footprint? And how – the eternal question – do you inspire people to send more dollars your way? These are the predicaments that the ...
More »Idaho uni panel reviews dismissal of professor, meth-related student alert
A University of Idaho panel has backed a journalism professor’s dismissal but skirted around an alert text the institution sent to students warning that she told police she used meth and had access to firearms. Denise Bennett was put on ...
More »That’s not us: US uni distances itself from moniker-sharing big pharma
What’s in a name? Potential damage to reputation for one US university. For the most part, Australian universities keep it simple when picking a name – opting almost exclusively for geographical references or notable figures. But basing an institution’s name ...
More »US uni appoints Academy Award-winner McConaughey as professor
Alright, alright, alright, class. Students at the University of Texas’ Moody College of Communication might be hearing this at the beginning of their first lecture later this year after Matthew McConaughey was appointed professor of practice. The Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar and ...
More »Gender equality at UTS: the soapbox
Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our new soapbox segment where we discuss some of the more the more controversial issues of the week. The University of Technology Sydney has made a decision to raise ...
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