Anyone who tells you they know what is going to happen to Australia’s extraordinarily valuable international student market is having you on. They can’t know, because it will all depend on things that haven’t happened yet. We don’t know what will ...
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While the COVID-19 pandemic has driven millions of people inside, many jobs in healthcare have not had that luxury. And as health professionals kept calm and carried on, so too did nursing schools across the nation as graduating the current ...
More »Asthma inhaler trial as COVID-19 treatment
They are designed to keep asthma attacks in check but a group of Australian researchers believe inhalers could also be used to treat COVID-19. A trial by Queensland University of Technology and University of Oxford researchers is looking at whether ...
More »Teaching online is leading online: some success strategies
With the COVID-19 crisis, universities across the world have turned to distance delivery. If you are an academic habituated with face-to-face delivery, this shift may have been a challenge. Teaching for student satisfaction and success in a distance learning environment ...
More »A fundamental shift: New Torrens VC on his vision for the institution and the changing role of higher education
In May, Campus Review spoke with Alwyn Louw as he commenced his new role as vice-chancellor of Torrens University. Starting any new job can be challenging at the best of times, but thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, new Torrens University ...
More »Natural disasters, global pandemic places planetary health on centre stage: opinion
At the beginning of 2020, no one could have predicted that within six months people around the world would be breathing cleaner air, carbon emissions would decline, people would reach out to help neighbours they once barely knew, and we ...
More »Griffith a big winner in ranking of academic subjects
No Australian university took home gold in a global ranking of academic subjects but there was a silver for Griffith University. It was second in the world for nursing in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, behind the University of ...
More »On the move | June
BENTLEY LEADS After a global search, Federation University has found its new vice-chancellor on home turf – Professor Duncan Bentley, the current deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at Swinburne University. Bentley leads the Academic, International, Online and Indigenous portfolios at Swinburne, and ...
More »Social media, fact-checking, and why ‘false equivalence’ drives Sacha Baron Cohen crazy
The recent discussion about the appropriateness or otherwise of putting fact check notices on social media posts has once again raised profoundly important questions which concern truth and free speech. This article re-ignites a more specific concern raised in November ...
More »THE unveils Australia’s best Golden Age, Millennial universities
Australian National University has retained its podium position in an international ranking of universities established during the expansion of higher education after World War II. ANU was again ranked second on the Times Higher Education list of Golden Age universities, ...
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