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More than 50 teams representing countries throughout South-east Asia will descend on Homebush, in Sydney, this week for the FIRST Robotics Competition, a competition for high schoolers to test their STEM skills against international rivals. Although STEM skills are in ...

A study of more than 10,000 university graduates has revealed that being from a low socioeconomic background or from a rural or regional centre does not hurt one's job or income prospects, compared with wealthier city dwellers. However, being from a ...

Following on from the debate this week at the Higher Education Conference surrounding the quality of research coming out of Australian universities, and the lack of collaboration with industry to cofinance it, the Commonwealth Government has formed a Steering Committee ...

Southern Cross University has commenced the search for a new vice-chancellor following the announcement that Professor Peter Lee will retire later this year. SCU Media Statement: "The vice-chancellor of Southern Cross University Professor Peter Lee announced last week his intention to ...

Universities Australia chair and vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University Barney Glover spoke in Canberra in early March on a range of issues affecting the higher education sector. Campus Review was there to capture his thoughts in this special Q&A. With uncapped fees ...

The Australian university system has been put on notice regarding the "opaque" ATAR admissions system. Education Minister Simon Birmingham used his keynote address at the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference to express his dissatisfaction with unmet demand and unclear processes. ...

A zero-tolerance approach to sexual harassment on university campuses is the guiding principle behind the 'Respect. Now. Always.' campaign that is uniting higher education institutions across Australia. The details of this campaign were fleshed out in Canberra this week at ...

The University of Canberra revealed this week that professor H Deep Saini will take over as vice-chancellor from professor Stephen Parker from 1 September 2016. Saini is now vice-president of the University of Toronto and principal of the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, both in ...

Universities Australia chair professor Barney Glover will use his address today at the National Press Club in Canberra to call on both major political parties to end the uncertainty over higher education policy and lay out their plans for the ...

The Australian Academy of the Humanities has hit out at present and past federal governments for failing to fund Trove, an online database of more than 472 million resource items related to the study of archaeology, culture and communication, English, history, ...