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Star Wars: The Force Awakens villain Kylo Ren and a team of physicists at the Australian National University have something in common – they’ve managed to stop light in mid-air. Though, unfortunately, the physicists didn’t use the mystical Force that permeates ...

Campus Review’s inaugural Higher Equity Summit kicks off today in Sydney. Here we’ll discuss, and work solutions towards solving, a very pertinent question in higher education – how can equity be achieved? Keep tabs here to follow Higher Equity Summit, ...

Work for the Dole programs have funneled many young people aged 15 to 19 into the scandal-ridden private VET sector, a new report from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research has found, even though representatives from many of these ...

The saying “never trust a skinny chef” has been applied to academia by education entrepreneur Mat Jacobson, who said university lecturers who’ve never run a start-up should not be teaching courses in entrepreneurship. Jacobson, founder of Dūcere Global Business School, which partners with ...

University course prerequisites are one remedy to the decline in Year 12 students taking harder maths subjects, a representative from the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has said. AMSI has released data showing that the number of Year 12 students taking on higher-level ...

California Institute of Technology has finally been knocked off its perch atop the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, after six years in the top spot. Four Australian institutions have broken into the chart for the first time, while the University of Melbourne has outdone ...

An evaluation of 108 interventions aimed at keeping young people out of jail has found that only 13 target the multiple factors that lead to teens getting into trouble. The remainder target only individual risk factors, such as alcohol and ...

A University of Sydney child protection and family law expert has argued La Trobe University’s reputation could be damaged by what he called the “academically irresponsible” conduct of its researchers working for the Safe Schools Coalition. Professor Patrick Parkinson has published ...

Almost two-thirds of possible side effects go unreported in peer-reviewed articles about medical drugs and other treatments, a study has shown. “Reporting of Adverse Events in Published and Unpublished Studies of Health Care Interventions: A Systematic Review”, published in the ...

Western Sydney University has forked out $20 million for marketing to run between 2015 and 2017. The University of New South Wales, RMIT and the University of Queensland all spent between $12.5 to $15 million, each, on their marketing in 2013. That makes the half a ...