http://www.campusreview.com.au/ This feed displays the lastest stories from Campus Review. Copyright 2006-2010 APN Educational Media Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Campus Review Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT 1440 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14966 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14966 Campus Review journalist John Ross was presented with his award for 2010 Higher Education Journalist of the Year by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14967 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14967 The federal government is considering emulating a German website that allows potential university students to compare universities based on subject,... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14963 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14963 The federal government needs first to define what a regional university is and what is meant by less research-intensive before the nuts and bolts of... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14964 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14964 Julia Gillard will put the vocational education and training sector front and centre of the next stage of the education revolution if the key... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14969 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14969 People who have disabilities do much worse in the labour market than people who don't. That's one of the unsurprising conclusions of a recent study... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14975 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14975 Listen online: Download this podcast Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14974 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14974 When a quality audit begins with the phrase so and so is "at a challenging phase of development", it's code for "help!" The Australian Institute of... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14971 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14971 There are moves afoot to define teaching standards for all school teachers in Australia, so the question follows as to whether standards can be set... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14970 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14970 VET will have to improve its performance markedly to meet the COAG targets, the latest data from the Productivity Commission suggests. In late 2008,... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14968 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14968 There is an old Chinese proverb that says: "When planning for a year, plant corn; when planning for a decade, plant trees; when planning for life,... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14965 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14965 Box Hill TAFE entered the higher education market in 2002, one of the first providers to respond to the Victorian government's invitation for TAFEs... Sun, 7 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14902 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14902 The proportion of student visa applications rejected by the immigration department has risen steeply, as tougher processing measures introduced last... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14905 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14905 Some 1300 colleges, universities and schools will have to reregister under tougher criteria if they want to keep enrolling international students... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14907 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14907 Welcome desks at international airports, safety awareness forums, surveys of overseas students' feelings. As the new academic year gears up,... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14914 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14914 I recently collected my third nationality: in the last week of 2009, I became a US citizen. To do so, I had to swear repeatedly under oath that I was... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14912 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14912 Last year will be remembered as the year in which international education in Australia finally made the headlines - for all the wrong reasons. It was... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Faculty+Focus&idArticle=14921 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Faculty+Focus&idArticle=14921 In the 1970s sociology was described as having "an identity crisis before it had an identity". That's a lot of baggage. The tensions haven't gone... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Faculty+Focus&idArticle=14920 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Faculty+Focus&idArticle=14920 A proper understanding of mainstream economic theory is necessary before any effective critique can be mounted, says Peter Groenewegen. Frank... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14919 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14919 Curtin University is beta testing a computing solution that will eventually allow the university to decide which of its 180 computing applications it... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14918 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14918 Bradley appointed as independent director of Seek Online job advertising company Seek has appointed former University of South Australia... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14917 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14917 Who wants to talk about continuous improvement? Within VET, and probably elsewhere, it is difficult to use the term without accompanying grimaces and... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14916 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14916 In the minds of many VET providers, innovation in relation to student engagement is not a top priority at the moment. Providers are preoccupied with... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14915 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14915 For decades, the name Toyota has been synonymous with quality production, performance and safety in automobiles. In recent weeks, however, that... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14913 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14913 The student-migrants at the centre of the recent skilled migration changes have been cast in contradictory roles by the Australian media. On the one... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14911 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Comment&idArticle=14911 "Rather than bureaucratic red tape and micromanaging of inputs, the Australian government will work in partnership with universities but define clear... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14910 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14910 The brutal murder of a Malaysian immigrant in inner-western Sydney has illustrated the depth of global feeling over violence against overseas... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14909 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14909 Greens education spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young has waded back into the Youth Allowance debate with a three-point plan to break the parliamentary... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14908 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14908 The government has applied the thumbscrews to the Opposition over the stalled student income support reforms, after Australia's 39 vice-chancellors... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14906 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14906 The government has committed $5.1 million to top up the ESOS Assurance Fund - just days before the expected release of the Baird review of the ESOS... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14904 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14904 Universities around the world have trumpeted international branch campuses as concrete evidence that their "brands" can compete on the global stage.... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14903 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14903 Melton, on the far north-western reaches of outer Melbourne, is the heartland of the federal government's higher education equity push. The... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14856 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14856 Despite warnings that the looming infrastructure and maintenance needs of each university could reach $1 billion, the federal government's key... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14868 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14868 Universities might have cried poor during the Howard years. But they did a hell of a lot better than VET, according to the Productivity Commission's... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14860 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14860 The Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School (BMIHMS) and its sister campus the Australian International Hotel School (AIHS) are the two... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14859 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14859 Would-be migrants from the most in-demand occupational groups could find that their skills no longer give them an extra edge under changes being... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14862 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14862 A significant donation to Bond University will fund the establishment of a new faculty of architecture. The Soheil Abedian School of Architecture... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14872 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArticle=14872 Would-be migrants from the most in-demand occupational groups could find that their skills no longer give them an extra edge under changes being... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14870 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=Sections&idArticle=14870 The New Zealand government is taking aim at lazy students and courses with high dropout or failure rates in looming reforms in tertiary education.... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14869 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14869 There is a light flickering on the horizon that offers a way out of some tangled debates in VET. That light is the emerging tertiary system in... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14867 http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=VET&idArticle=14867 While TAFEs provide 70 per cent or more of VET in Australia, a new report has found that TAFE staff account for only about 16 per cent of the overall... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT