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Rankings may be in fashion at RMIT, after a global rating of the world’s fashion schools listed the institute's as the best in Australia. It placed 12 globally. RMIT achieved this in the second iteration of The Business of Fashion rankings, which ...

Australia’s tendency “to make the unemployment experience as unpleasant as possible” could be heightening the risk of depression in those who don’t have a job, research suggests. The Australian National University’s Dr Laura Crowe, a clinical psychology doctoral student, found that ...

This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Dr Liam Lenton is a macroeconomist applying the principles of this otherwise dryish subject to popular pursuits like sport, music and film. ...

After high school, Nisha Pradhan wanted to be a hairdresser. Her male high school careers adviser thought “this was a great idea.” But when Pradhan, now a University of New South Wales fourth-year electrical engineering and commerce student, told her ...

The University of Newcastle has appointed its first pro vice-chancellor for Indigenous education and research. Professor Steve Larkin is the inaugural holder of this cross-institutional leadership role. Larkin's responsibilities will include championing and promoting Indigenous education and research and to oversee UON's ...

The Australian Human Rights Commission has today unveiled an Australian-first survey into the experiences of sexual harassment and assault by students at Australian universities. The survey is being conducted at the behest of Universities Australia. This survey is the latest ...

This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Dr Russell Sinclair has been researching botany at a single reserve for the past 40 years. We ...

The Australian Research Council has defended its funding of humanities studies, following media reports criticising the body for spending taxpayer dollars on “absurd and obscure” research. The Daily Telegraph today lambasted the ARC for its latest wave of funding to humanities research ...

In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism, James from Education Review and Campus Review discusses the #LetThemStay movement among academics and Dallas Bastian from Aged Care Insite ...

Australia’s immigration detention centres are many things, divisive being one. This week, the nation watched as guerrilla protestors crashed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s first major economic speech since the federal election. One stormed the stage, holding a sign directed at news ...