Ramsay Centre chief executive Professor Simon Haines has rejected The University of Sydney's latest proposal to modify the Centre's Western Civilisation degree. The modification involved reducing the full major to just two subjects and allowing far more students to access ...

After more than a year of negotiations with the University of Sydney, vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence has written to the Ramsay Centre to propose an alternative program that would increase the number of students involved in studying Western civilisation and ...

The University of Queensland plans to offer an extended major in Western Civilisation as soon as next year following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. In signing the MOU, UQ’s chancellor and vice-chancellor, ...

Australia’s tertiary education union had dropped legal action against the University of Wollongong (UOW) after the university’s council approved the controversial Ramsay Centre Western Civilisation Degree in June. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), which commenced legal action in the ...

The Ramsay Centre’s Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation and associated double degree will commence in 2020 at the University of Wollongong, despite the university’s Academic Senate disagreeing with the decision. At its meeting last Friday, the University of Wollongong ...

Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our fourth weekly roundup. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. Our most popular story by far this week was the University of Alabama’s ...

Established in March 2017 through a bequest by the Ramsay Foundation, the Ramsay Centre’s objective is to reinvigorate the study of Western civilisation in Australia. The Centre aims to have its program taught in two to three universities initially, mainly ...

Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our second roundup of the key stories and issues of the week. You can either read the summary or listen to the podcast below. First, the controversial Ramsay Centre ...

The controversial Western Civilisation degree, currently homed at the University of Wollongong, has released its syllabus. It covers ancient Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, and the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries through to today, via the lenses of ...

Former Labor heavyweight and now ANU chancellor Gareth Evans has used a speech to fellow university leaders to detail ANU’s much publicised struggles with the Ramsay Foundation and call for universities to be vigilant in remaining open to the principles of ...