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The higher education landscape in Australia has altered dramatically since the first issue of Campus Review hit the stands in August 1991. The past twenty years is testament to the fact that universities are both resilient and adaptable. Through the ...

Twenty years is a long time in higher education, although it is eerie how many of the issues remain largely the same despite several attempts to address them: worsening staff-student ratios, lack of adequate funding, concerns about quality, the allocation ...

It’s not an easy time for universities. What continuing level of funding will Canberra provide for increased domestic student enrolments? Will declining international revenue cover shortfalls? Will they gain or lose domestic students with caps lifted on Commonwealth Supported Place? ...

When I joined the University of Wollongong in 1990 from UTS, there was a great sense of optimism about the future – both in Wollongong and in the higher education sector generally. We were emerging from the John Dawkins era ...

How do Australia’s universities experience the changes that are sweeping through the higher education sector? Differently, no doubt. Despite a common university mission of teaching, research and service, it is a diverse sector with a variety of institutional histories, geographies ...

These days, an ever-important concept in the lexicon of the Prime Minister is the term “structural adjustment”. She often alludes to the structural adjustment that is required for the nation as it comes to grips with the government putting a ...

Twenty years ago when Campus Review was started, I had just returned to the tertiary sector in New Zealand after a time as a secondary school principal, a time of unprecedented change in school administration. I got back just in ...

Those attending the Opera House awards ceremony loudly cheered outgoing ALTC CEO Dr Carol Nicoll and teacher-of-the-year winner Associate Professor Roy Tasker (pictured), his predecessor Dr John Minns from the ANU, as well as for the dozens who received teaching and ...

It only takes a few seconds of conversation with Associate Professor Roy Tasker to see the enthusiasm that has won him the Australian University Teacher of the Year Award. Tasker, a chemistry professor at the University of Western Sydney, was ...

A Liberal senator’s motion for an inquiry into university funding was rejected because it was premature and lacked scope, according to Greens Senator and Higher Education spokesperson Lee Rhiannon. Opposition education spokesman Senator Brett Mason last week moved that the ...