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School boys’ writing standards have slipped again: Year Nine boys now write on average at a Year Seven level. It’s looking like an Australian education crisis, though not a new one. It is worth noting, girls’ writing has been slipping ...

The most creative university students from around Australia came together over the weekend to help develop solutions to real and current problems faced by humanitarian disaster organisation RedR Australia. The Professor Ron Johnston Humanitarian Innovation Hackathon, hosted by The Warren ...

The University of Queensland plans to offer an extended major in Western Civilisation as soon as next year following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. In signing the MOU, UQ’s chancellor and vice-chancellor, ...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be given an honorary doctorate from a Victorian university in front of thousands of fans. La Trobe University will recognise his efforts to support women and underprivileged children – along with his Bollywood achievements ...

There exists a long and renowned history of ‘civic universities’ in the Anglosphere, and they are often compared and contrasted with the ‘ancient’ universities, sometimes seen as the repositories of tradition with their rituals, old buildings and formal codes of ...

A wall of inequality was built into our post-schooling system decades ago, and today its legacy has left us with an educational caste system of haves and have-nots. Despite countless reviews and attempts to break it down, this wall is ...

Personalised and adaptive learning are not necessarily new terms, dating back to the 1960s and 1970s respectively, but even today there is no blanket definition for either, meaning the line drawn between the two can often be blurred. Whilst personalisation ...

In looking at ways to comprehensively restructure its first year student program, Victoria University chose to abandon the "industrial model of education that is very hard to change". Professor Marcia Devlin, VU's senior deputy vice-chancellor, was presenting at this week's ...

Universities, and businesses, all around the world are littered with failed technology projects. If you dig into why those projects fail, the fundamental reasons are often the same – the scope wasn’t well defined or they were trying to achieve ...

Universities at the beginning of the 21st century face an existential challenge. Do they fully embrace the competitive path spurred on by global rankings and driven by international student income? A path that shifts the costs and benefits of higher ...