Professor Marguerite Johnson bristles at the issue of free speech on campus being termed a 'fight'. But that is indeed how Campus Review labelled it at its recent seminar, 'The Fight for Free Speech: What it Means for Universities'. Held on ...

There was controversy before Campus Review's latest conference, 'Cash cows or human capital? Perspectives on international students in Australia', began. "The title of this conference is offensive to international students and to the staff who teach and look after them," ...

University management professional turned organic beef farmer Brigid Price is now, of all things, an entrepreneur. The unlikeliness comes from the fact that while almost half of all new Australian ventures are founded in rural, regional or remote areas, only 2.4 per ...

A small farm on the outskirts of Bacchus Marsh, about halfway between Melbourne and Ballarat, is the birthplace of a self-described 'unlikely entrepreneur'. But it took decades for Alan Manly to get to that point. The managing director of Sydney-based private tertiary ...

We hear about their extreme highs and lows, but we don’t often hear the everyday thoughts of migrant and refugee young people in Australia. Not every one is a Duckie Thot or the victim of an unprovoked attack. There are Muhammads, ...

Futurist Phil Ruthven thinks the kids are more than alright. The founder of global economic and social market research firm IBISWorld and the newly formed Ruthven Institute has nearly 50 years of experience, as well as access to volumes of big ...

Anthropologist Lisa Wynn talks predatory publishing and the study of love, sex and desire. What is your name, where are you based and what do you do? I’m Lisa Wynn, but I publish as L.L. Wynn, and I am an associate professor ...

Businesses around the globe are seeking a competitive advantage from the use of 'big data' – and the data scientists who can unlock its secrets are reaping the benefits of this growing demand. Nearly all key business processes and systems ...

I am a middle-class woman, aged between 40 and 59, with a postgraduate education. Except I'm not. That was a prediction of my identity, based on my cultural tastes, by a global team of researchers. They shared a sample of ...

A study of 3,659 PhD students in Flanders, Belgium found that over a third - well above the proportion in comparison groups - were at a high risk of having or developing a psychiatric disorder, especially depression. Competing work/life demands, job demands and ...