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It has been described as one of the great PR coups of the Brisbane G20 Leaders' Summit, US president Barack Obama is due to make an address at the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus this weekend. The invite-only address is set ...

Nurses may realise early in the piece that patients are ready to move from life-prolonging treatment to palliative care but are unable to make that decision for them, a recent study has highlighted. University of Queensland School of Social Science associate ...

Eleven Australian universities were amongst just 76 organisations included in the national Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WGEA) inaugural Employer of Choice for Gender Equity citation list. The citations, which require organisations to submit evidence proving they meet a range of rigorous ...

Medical students will probably be amongst those feeling the brunt of any increases to university fees under a deregulated system, one of the nation’s chief doctors has warned. Speaking to Campus Review ahead of the three-day Higher Education Reform Summit ...

In Campus Review’s latest podcast, UQ emeritus professor Graeme Turner explains why his landmark report Mapping the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia, is vital to the sector’s future viability. Recently launched at the National Press Club, the report ...

Recently announced government action in the face of an acute crisis engulfing the apprenticeship and traineeship sector should help – but a true fix requires wider action. By Martin Riordan Australian education and training ministers pledged recently in Adelaide to ...

Could a ban on students sending queries to their teachers’ inbox work? The experiences of one academic provide food for thought. By Andrew Bracey Fed up with a seemingly endless stream of emails from her students asking inane or generally ...

Industries relying heavily on employees working outside the traditional 9–5 may face workforce problems if federal government proposals to remove penalty rates become reality, a new study has revealed. The report, released last week by University of SA researchers, found that employees' decisions to ...

The Australian Skills and Quality Authority and peak industry body the Australian Council of Private Education and Training have defended both the quality of vocational training and its regulation following the release of data revealing that just 1 in 5 providers has passed ...

Go8 universities were once again the big winners of Australian Research Council grants. Collectively, they picked up almost 70 per cent of the $354 million in allocated federal funds from the latest round. Leading the way was UNSW, which received $45.3 million that will fund ...