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A professor with one of the world’s most incredible track records of predicting election results believes Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are on course to win. Griffith University’s Bela Stancic successfully predicted Scott Morrison’s surprise victory in May, along with ...

Back in September 2017, Campus Review highlighted changes being made in the humanities and social science areas at the University of Newcastle, which involved the development of a new structure built around four multidisciplinary ‘clusters’. Aligning organisational changes to the ...

EGAN’S SUCCESSOR Macquarie’s longest-serving chancellor, Michael Egan, has left some big shoes to fill. Stepping into them is Dr Martin Parkinson, a public servant of more than 30 years who served as secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister ...

Negotiations between the University of Sydney and the Ramsay Centre have broken down, with the funding body announcing it will not work with the university on Western civilisation education. Early last year, the University of Sydney put forward a proposal with ...

The Minister for Education is threatening cheating services with jail time under new laws introduced to parliament this week. Minister Dan Tehan introduced the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Prohibiting Academic cheating Services) Bill 2019 into the House of ...

The University of Tasmania has formally apologised to the island state’s indigenous people, acknowledging the institution has been built on “the proceeds of war and dispossession”. More than 600 people including Aboriginal leaders, university staff and students gathered at Domain ...

Schools value research more than they actually use it. In its raw form, after all, it can be notoriously abstruse. Not only are scholarly papers replete with hard-to-penetrate jargon, but often the research base is hard to access, and abuzz ...

The exploitation of international students is rampant in Australia’s “wild west” rental housing market, a new report has found. More than 5000 international students across Australia were surveyed for the report, which found “rogue landlords” were preying on students. Associate ...

Ever said something you regretted over a family Christmas lunch? Or wish you hadn’t written that embarrassing Tinder bio? Chances are you were particularly alert and awake that day. That’s what new University of Melbourne research suggests. Dr Brent Coker ...

Australian academic Timothy Weeks is back home in Australia after being released by the Taliban in a prisoner swap. Weeks, a teacher from Wagga Wagga in NSW, was freed from custody in Afghanistan along with his American colleague Kevin King, ...