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This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Federation University Australia's Marcia Devlin is an Irish-Australian focused on using education to impart equity for socially disadvantaged ...

Two words, 10 syllables: 'transdisciplinary innovation'. It's the new buzz-phrase going around the University of Technology Sydney. So much so that the institution has created a whole new faculty dedicated to it. And what is transdisciplinary innovation? It’s when people from ...

With the University of Sydney strengthening its ties with China, as demonstrated by the opening of its first Chinese address at the beginning of November, USYD’s vice-chancellor has sought to play down concerns that Chinese soft power could be influencing ...

International education earned Australia $20.3 billion last financial year, new Australian Bureau of Statistics figures have shown. This is an 8 per cent growth in export income from the previous 12 months. International education is now Australia’s third-largest export, behind ...

The lives of non-traditional students underscore the societal benefits, and necessity, of open pathways to higher education. Who succeeds in higher education? Not me, aged 20. That year, my second at Otago University, was at once memorable and forgettable, because ...

Mick Grimley is the dean of education at Torrens University, which has recently introduced a graduate certificate in education (autism), specifically for teachers and other professionals who work with children with autism. Some of the stated objectives of this course are ...

The changes to VET FEE-HELP will not prevent a repeat of history unless they adequately address some of the systemic issues of the past and prepare the sector for the future. In early 2015, a private-equity firm rang to ask ...

A former politician hailed as a father of Australia’s current tertiary-education system has called on the federal government and the opposition to work together in reforming it. Former federal treasurer and education minister John Dawkins told the Australian Financial Review Higher Education ...

As the dust settles on the government’s proposed changes to Australia’s vocational loan scheme, VET-FEE HELP, we should be reminded of the need for proper consultation prior to broad reforms. By Jon Lang VET-FEE HELP, Australia’s vocational loans scheme, has ...

The Australian National University has shot up Times Higher Education’s Global University Employability ranking, coming in at 22. By climbing 10 places from last year, ANU bucked a local trend; the five other Australian institutions listed fell down the ladder. ...