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The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School and the University of New South Wales’s Australian Graduate School of Management have been inaugurated into the elite tier of business schools by international rankings agency QS. The new analysis QS Global 250 ...

Often it’s the young who embrace change earliest, and this could apply to universities. Of the 106 companies accredited in 2016 by the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality, 14 are universities. Of ...

The University of New England has announced that prospective students will now be able to study individual undergraduate and postgraduate subjects under its new Bespoke Courses model. Announced this week, Bespoke Courses aims to cater for those who want to ...

Forcing universities to publish the true ATAR cut-offs for their courses and creating a MySchool-style website allowing students to compare the admissions standards of various courses is on the reform agenda for federal education minister Simon Birmingham. Birmingham has announced ...

With 'essay mills' now well established in higher education, it seems some firms are now stumbling into the public relations and journalism arena. A "content writer and blogger" approached Campus Review recently with an article he had prepared – unsolicited – ...

Throughout the early twentieth century, anthropologist, biologist and zoologist Baldwin Spencer published several influential books that argued the case that Indigenous Australians were primitive and culturally inferior to the British. At the same time, he was a meticulous genealogist and ...

The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School has leaped into the top ten of Bloomberg’s international MBA ranking. MBS climbed 14 spots to claim spot number nine on the list. No other Australian institutions appear in the chart that lists ...

A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has shown that public VET spending has declined to its lowest level in 10 years. Expenditure on education and training in Australia showed that total taxpayer spending is now at $5.7 billion, ...

Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning can improve STEM education. Spatial reasoning refers to a person’s ability to visualise three-dimensional objects. For example, one uses spatial ...

The incoming chair of Group of Eight has indicated he would like to see the funding distortions affecting disciplines like veterinary science, medicine, agriculture and dentistry to be corrected. Professor Peter Høj, who is also vice-chancellor of the University of ...