The earnings of Indigenous Australian university graduates appear to be nearly on par with their non-Indigenous colleagues, according to fresh data analysis by a University of Western Australia researcher. Based on data from Graduate Careers Australia’s annual Graduate Destinations surveys ...

With so many graduates taking longer to find full-time work, Campus Review asks what recruiters want and how institutions can help students get it. A recent Graduate Careers Australia survey indicated a historical high in the number of new graduates ...

The term google has become so familiar – both as the proprietary name of the Internet search engine and as the act of searching on it – that it’s easy to disregard what a strange word it is. The company’s ...

VET sector groups have welcomed new federal government initiatives aimed at improving apprenticeship completion rates. Under the arrangements set to begin from July next year, the government will provide $200 million a year to the newly announced Australian Apprenticeship Support Network, which ...

Universities Australia has thrown its support behind calls from the government’s chief scientist for a long-term strategic approach to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. In a report released this week, Australia's Chief Scientist professor Ian Chubb called for a ...

  Higher-education leadership, management and best practice were celebrated last night at the 2014 Australian Tertiary Education and Management (ATEM) Campus Review Awards ceremony in Cairns. The awards, now in their third year, recognise excellence in areas such as management, ...

Australian National University’s Dr Elizabeth Beckmann has been awarded a fellowship in recognition of her work improving the quality of university teaching. The Australian National Teaching Fellowship is awarded by the Office for Learning and Teaching. As its recipient, Beckmann ...

These fish names originate from one and the same word, according to the earliest Southern Hemisphere records published in Morris’s Dictionary of Austral English (1898). At the entry for trevally,Morris gives the alternative spellings trevalli, trevalla and travale,and suggests they ...

Academic staff at the University of Technology, Sydney launched a strike action this morning. The National Tertiary Education Union is accusing the university of “stonewalling” efforts to secure a fair staff enterprise agreement. Acting president of the NTEU’s UTS branch, Vince ...

An economic downturn has been blamed for a recent decline in the number of Australians commencing trade and non-trade apprenticeships and traineeships. Seasonally adjusted data that the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) released last week indicates that commencement numbers ...