You may not think it, but soft skills such as intuition and creativity are as important for data scientists as technical skills. In this information age, organisations today have unprecedented volumes of data at their fingertips, providing incredible opportunities for ...

While images of bone-weary male firefighters collapsed on the ground fill our screens and social media platforms, lesser known are the valiant efforts of women who are independently fighting the fires on their own doorstep. "Everyone thinks of the men, ...

It is noteworthy how far we have come in defining and shaping a concept of engagement. Universities in Australia are helping to build the future, in partnership with others across the globe also, as part of a new economic and ...

There still exists an idealised conception of the university. It’s what makes international rankings plausible, because everybody thinks they know what a university should be and therefore can compare them. In that conception, research is well supported and academics are ...

Back in September 2017, Campus Review highlighted changes being made in the humanities and social science areas at the University of Newcastle, which involved the development of a new structure built around four multidisciplinary ‘clusters’. Aligning organisational changes to the ...

After the dystopian futures predicted in the television series The Handmaids Tale and Huxley’s classic Brave New World, Monash University has launched a new podcast series called What Happens Next? which posits that such tales are becoming uncomfortably similar to the reality ...

A few months ago I came across a disturbing leaflet at my university campus that promised completed assignments with a fee of 50 euro per page. It assured to erase the stress of students having to spend time on homework, as ...

I was delighted recently when, through Commonwealth Minister Dan Tehan, I was asked by COAG’s Education Council to chair a review of how to improve senior secondary pathways into training, future education and work. So, I know, were the other ...

There is not much doubt that we need a renewal of moral and intellectual leadership in Australia. Where might it come from? Perhaps from surprising places. While we have lots of bright young people committed to positive change, three additional ...

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 ...