At the start of March 2016, Bond University issued a media release titled "Indigenous Australians awarded prestigious scholarships to Bond University". It told of how Bond was giving 21 Indigenous students the financial, cultural and motivational support to "help achieve their dream ...
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Universities Australia chair and vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University Barney Glover spoke in Canberra in early March on a range of issues affecting the higher education sector. Campus Review was there to capture his thoughts in this special Q&A. With uncapped fees ...
More »When a school deals with death
This feature was originally written for Campus Review's sister title Education Review. While the focus is on secondary school responses to student deaths, many of the issues are also applicable to the tertiary education sector. When Christopher Hall was in primary ...
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In an early episode of the fourth season of Lena Dunham’s hipster HBO comedy Girls, the auteur’s character, Hannah, is about to read a short story composition to her classmates in a creative writing workshop. It’s an intimate group. Hannah ...
More »Arts and humanities called key to getting jobs
Arts and humanities degrees are more valuable for getting graduates jobs than purely technical degrees, a humanities advocacy group has said. Statistics from Graduate Careers Australia show that rates of graduate employment have been steadily declining in recent years – decreasing ...
More »Student engagement in online courses
Challenges linked to student engagement exist in most types of learning environments but can be more difficult when it comes to online delivery. In an exclusive interview Campus Review spoke to Dr Shane Magee, senior lecturer at the Macquarie Applied ...
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