Campus Review The latest in higher education news

ATAR cut-offs are not useful measurements of student potential in the demand-driven system, the vice-chancellor of Charles Sturt University has argued. ATAR has been the subject of media scrutiny since it was revealed some universities were admitting students 40 points ...

University workforces must move away from the traditional 40/40/20 workforce model and embrace flexibility, the sector's employer association has argued. The 40/40/20 model typically allocates 40 per cent of academic staff’s workload to research, 40 per cent to teaching and 20 ...

In an early episode of the fourth season of Lena Dunham’s hipster HBO comedy Girls, the auteur’s character, Hannah, is about to read a short story composition to her classmates in a creative writing workshop. It’s an intimate group. Hannah ...

The ongoing development and introduction of new technology in university environments is changing the nature of tertiary education, providing new revenue streams, competition and disruption, states a report commissioned by the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (AHEIA) and written by PwC. ...

Teaching degrees are used by universities as a cash cow and this can partially explain startling teacher attrition rates, an expert has said. Recent research from the Australian National University shows 30 to 50 per cent of teachers quit the ...

The federal government has labelled a furore over a leaked Council of Australian Governments paper on a possible federal TAFE takeover a “beat-up” and “old news”. The leaked draft details a plan in which funding and loan schemes would become income contingent. ...

This is an edited transcript of Australian National University (ANU) vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt's 2016 welcoming address. Schmidt started this role on 1 January 2016. My ambition as vice-chancellor is to...foster a culture where we can all reach our full potential. Where ...

The private VET scandal shouldn’t turn students off taking school-based apprenticeships, Group Training Australia has said. Jim Barron, GTA chief executive, said these apprenticeships are a great way for school students to get a career kickstart. In these programs, students ...