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As informed public debate and discourse recede, it is more important than ever for universities to engage politically. As my higher education colleagues and I look to begin a new academic year, there is a pervading sense that some ‘certainties’ ...

The youngest children in class are more likely than their older classmates to receive medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a study by academics at Curtin University has found. The results of the study, published in the Medical Journal ...

In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities ...

This word owes its origin to one person’s creative thinking, in the title of Parag Khanna’s Connectography: Mapping the future of global civilization.  It was published less than a year ago (April 2016) along with a TED Talk, and with ...

Hill headed  for ECU Professor Angela Hill will soon join Edith Cowan University from James Cook University where her most recent appointment has been dean of learning, teaching and student engagement. ECU says Hill’s portfolio will encompass the Centre for ...

The University of Sydney hosted a week of mentoring programs in mid-January 2017 for Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander high school students. Students in Year 9 and 10 are part of the Wingara Mura program while those in Year 11 ...

Charles Sturt University vice-chancellor professor Andrew Vann has renewed his contract and will stay at the helm until 2021. For his next term, Vann said he'd ensure CSU added value to the communities it was a part of. This meant, ...

Printing documents is such a quotidian part of life working in the education industry that you rarely consider it for more than a second. You receive an email you want to save for a meeting; an interesting piece of online ...

Universities Australia is calling for perspective as a new debate about uni dropouts kicks off, by pointing out that 7 out of 10 students complete their degree within nine years. This is despite the same federal Education Department data showing that ...

As it strong-arms universities to become more transparent about graduate outcomes, the federal government has named the country’s best and worst performing institutions, when it comes to completion rates, for the first time. The new Federal Education Department statistics show ...