Campus Review The latest in higher education news

The University of Sydney is set to get a new centre for project leadership thanks to a $20 million donation from engineering services magnate John Grill. The Centre for Project Leadership is to be an industry-oriented centre aimed at undertaking ...

Professor Andrew Parfitt has been appointed deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at the University of Newcastle. Parfitt is currently pro vice-chancellor and vice-president of the Faculty of IT, Engineering and the Environment at the University of South Australia, a position he has ...

With more than 20 years' experience at Swinburne University of Technology, Professor Michael Gilding will take up his new role as executive dean of the Faculty of Business and Enterprise. Gilding is currently deputy dean (research) in the Faculty of ...

The University of Queensland’s Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies has welcomed Professor Gay Hawkins as its new director. Hawkins was previously deputy director and professorial research fellow in the centre for two years. She has published widely on cultural ...

Best known as the inaugural presenter of the ABC’s 7:30 Report, Jane Singleton has joined Charles Darwin University’s external relations unit as head of Foundation and Alumni. Singleton has worked in strategic communications and as a public advocate. Her campaign ...

In what is a new role for Deakin University, it has appointed Ron Fairchild as its vice-president (advancement). The position gives Fairchild the responsibility for fund-raising, alumni development, events management, government, media and internal relations and community engagement across Deakin’s ...

Phil Davison has joined the University of the Sunshine Coast as its new student ombudsman. Davison has almost 20 years of experience in dispute resolution. He has worked as a complaints manager for the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission and the ...

A “doom and gloom” analysis on the future of Australia’s universities has been downplayed by some leaders in the sector, who say many changes are already underway.  An Australian parliamentarian has questioned a report by a renowned international consultancy firm ...

British universities should take millions of pounds set aside for bursaries and tuition-fee discounts for poor students and use it to fund a new education allowance for teenagers, a report says. The study by Alan Milburn, the British government's social ...

With an increasing number of people doing their courses via the internet a leading academic says we are risking losing students to overseas providers. Australia’s higher education quality regulator is obstructing advances in educational technologies and is jeopardising the nation’s ...