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The international arrivals hall at Melbourne airport last week was populated with people wearing red shirts and big smiles. Their job was to greet some of the 20,000 students expected to pass through its doors last week. The welcoming crew ...

In the early stages of major transformation, the 112-year-old Avondale College is a small institution with big ambitions. A recent visit by the Australian Universities Quality Agency found that the Christian college was grappling with structural change, including improving its ...

At least 20 new university campuses will have to be built in outer suburban areas to accommodate the 284,000 additional students anticipated students to swamp the sector in the wake of the Bradley review. In her review of higher education ...

The chair of IDP Education Australia Professor Ian Young has written to all Australian Universities advising them that its successful Peace Scholarship program has been terminated. Since it was established in 2004, more than 300 students from 13 countries came ...

Last week, 300 academic and professional staff descended on QUT for a two-day seminar on the first-year experience. Another 400 registered, but couldn’t be accommodated. It’s a fair measure of the increasing interest in, and importance of, the issue. And ...

Five universities were first-timers in last week’s Learning and Teaching Performance Fund, while another five were left empty-handed. In all, 32 universities received a total of $73 million, with UNSW topping the list at $7 million. While the controversy that ...

A single government response to the Cutler and Bradley reviews is expected to be considered by federal cabinet this week. ***Campus Review** understands that a joint submission to the two major reviews has been developed by the two responsible ministers ...

Truly world-class research is not the preserve of a small number of research-universities, but comes from a widespread array of institutions and less-celebrated departments, according to research conducted by Professor Andrew Oswald, a respected economist from the University of Warwick. ...

Strong strategic direction and planning, strengthening research profile, students as happy campers, hitting the mark on student equity, well-developed internationalisation strategy, curriculum renewal, healthy offshore campus, great reputation in domestic and international markets. Curtin University of Technology was handed its ...

The University of Notre Dame is set to radically expand its Sydney presence, having taken possession of three sites on Broadway - the southern entrance to the Sydney CBD – in the past few months. It’s student cohort will increase ...