Professor John Fazarkerley has commenced today as the new dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Coming to the windy city from the United Kingdom, were he was the director and CEO of ...
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Antarctic nunatak named for UTAS geology founding father
An icebound island of Antarctica has been named after the University of Tasmania's foundation professor of geology. The Carey Nunatak, named for professor Samuel Warren Carey, lies 360 kilometres northeast of Davis Station, which is an Australian-administered island just off the icy ...
More »Talking Eds, Episode 7: No school no pay, there’s an app for autism and the Census coming to unis
In Episode 7 of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review discuss an ambitious plan to withhold cash from families whose kids are missing school, an award winning app to detect autism and why ...
More »Everything counts: 2016 Census puts higher education on alert
Census night in Australia is coming up – and, quite literally, everyone is invited compelled to participate! On August 9, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will conduct the Census of Population and Housing, a quinquennial tradition dating back to 1828. In the lead-up ...
More »Profile: Nick Braae, musico with a PhD in Queen
In a new series at Campus Review, we visit with academics and researchers to discuss their studies. In this installment, we virtually cross the Tasman to speak with University of Waikato PhD completer Nick Braae, who has a love of ...
More »VET sector needs resources to provide critical STEM skills
Australia’s competitiveness in the future international marketplace and ability to cope with digital disruption will depend largely on the VET sector delivering STEM training to the workforce, a new report has argued. The report, The VET Era: Equipping Australia’s workforce for ...
More »Slow browsing day on the uni wifi? Here’s why
Mixing business, leisure and education on the same network can create challenges for network capacity. By Bruce Miller. At most higher-education institutions today, you’ll find students, faculty and staff struggling with consistently bad internet. It’s hard to believe these are places of ...
More »Profile: Multitalented UniSA drunkorexia researcher Alissa Knight
In a new series at Campus Review, we visit with academics and researchers to discuss their studies. In our first installment, we meet a high-achieving UniSA PhD candidate who recently made headlines for groundbreaking insights into the drunkorexia phenomenon. CR: ...
More »Higher education reform highly unlikely in new Parliament
Don't expect any significant changes to higher-education policy from the incoming Parliament. That's the message from Andrew Norton, tertiary education expert at think tank The Grattan Institute. Because of the unwieldy nature of the new Senate, not to mention the fact ...
More »Macquarie Uni’s HSCStudyLab earns innovation award
Macquarie University's revision module HSCStudyLab has been honoured with a gong at the NSW edition of the 2016 Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) iAwards for achievement in innovation in the digital economy. HSCStudyLab won its prize in the Community Services category. ...
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