Campus Review The latest in higher education news

A crane that toppled into a Brisbane university building caused a crash like thunder, a student who was inside said. The mobile crane fell across South Bank's Grey Street just before 11am, its tip lodging in the sixth storey of ...

University of Melbourne economists have determined that school principals have a direct impact on students’ scores in standardised testing such as NAPLAN. Using Victorian Education Department public school data, economist Dr Mick Coelli and colleagues found that principals who set clear ...

Academic recalcitrance and institutional rivalry could kill the joint University of Melbourne-Monash University commercialisation fund for biomedical research before it even properly begins, one of the brains behind the program has warned. Monash and UniMelb are rivals in the battle ...

Public concerns about nanoparticle sunscreens are misplaced, according to a review that found them safe and effective. The available evidence indicates that nano-materials don't penetrate the skin's surface and, in fact, decrease the levels of harmful free radicals in the skin, said associate ...

We've all seen ads on TV, in newspapers, splashed across social media, on the sides of buses and on billboards from city centres to the rural outskirts of civilisation. Gambling advertising has become an inescapable ever-present, to the point where ...

Peanut butter may soon once again be stocked in preschool pantries. An international research team, including scientists from the University of Western Australia (UWA), have discovered the peanut genes that cause allergic reactions. By decoding peanuts’ DNA, the group, including ...

With endless announcements about new multimillion-dollar STEM facilities opening at Australian universities, arts education has finally received some love. It’s $6.5 million worth of love in fact – the price tag of the University of Melbourne's new arts education facility. ...

In the second episode of APN Educational Media's new Week in Review podcast, now titled Talking Eds, new editor Patrick Avenell is joined by James Wells from Education Review and Campus Review and Loren Smith from Early Learning Review to dissect ...