Following the stock market, watching the cricket and talking to friends all over the world – there's an app for that, as the saying goes. And now there's an app to gain an insight into whether a young child might have ...
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Murdoch University has confirmed that its new vice-chancellor Eeva Leinonen will commence in the role in April 2016. Leinonen is heading west to Perth from the University of Wollongong, where she is the deputy vice-chancellor (academic). Before that, Leinonen spent 19 ...
More »Wise women: females in science tell their stories
To celebrate the UN Day for Women and Girls in Science during February, Campus Review spoke to ten women engaged in the field. The women are studying, researching, teaching and promoting fields including biology, biophysics, chemistry and paleontology, among others, at ...
More »Young guns from UQ, UNSW and ANU off to exotic locales to consult, innovate and moot for Australia
High achieving students from the University of Queensland, the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University will soon be jetting off to exotic locations to take on the world after winning national titles in their chosen fields. To Brisbane, ...
More »UniSA marks silver anniversary with book of achievements
The University of South Australia is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2016. To mark this occasion and introduce the latest batch of cohorts to the Adelaide campus, the UniSA team has compiled a factbook highlighting 101 major achievements – "things you might not ...
More »UTAS building $90m creative development to cement state’s place as arts hub
The University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian state government have today announced a $90 million partnership to fund and build a Creative Industries and Performing Arts Development in Hobart. The project will deliver performance and research facilities, including new studios, ...
More »Content note: trigger warnings, microaggressions within
In an early episode of the fourth season of Lena Dunham’s hipster HBO comedy Girls, the auteur’s character, Hannah, is about to read a short story composition to her classmates in a creative writing workshop. It’s an intimate group. Hannah ...
More »Disrupted, not defeated: technology is threat and catalyst
The ongoing development and introduction of new technology in university environments is changing the nature of tertiary education, providing new revenue streams, competition and disruption, states a report commissioned by the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (AHEIA) and written by PwC. ...
More »New ANU vice-chancellor stresses equal opportunity and internationalism in first keynote address
This is an edited transcript of Australian National University (ANU) vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt's 2016 welcoming address. Schmidt started this role on 1 January 2016. My ambition as vice-chancellor is to...foster a culture where we can all reach our full potential. Where ...
More »Uni services provider Navitas reports $45.5m half-year profit
Publicly listed university services provider Navitas Group has today reported a $45.5 million net profit after tax for the first half of the 2016 financial year. This is 12 per cent jump on the previous corresponding half-year, when taking into account a ...
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