Sixteen-year-old Mountain Creek State High School student Samara Welbourne is combining her love of books and Bali to lead a $20,000 project to build a library in Bungaya, a rural community on the island popular with Australian tourists. Welbourne started learning ...

Jamye Harrison, an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW, and his business partner Russell King are the first non-UK entrants to be shortlisted for the Wolfson Economics Prize. Since the £250,000 prize was first awarded in 2012 ...

Fluoxetine, the antidepressant in drugs such as Prozac and Lovan, has been found to increase the risk of birth defects when taken during pregnancy. A meta-analysis of 16 studies, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, determined that fetuses ...

Five RMIT juris doctor students have made a robust case for improved human rights protections in Australia. The students, Brigette Rose, Frank Aloe, Helen Metzger, Luke Fowler and Veronica Snip worked under the supervision of staff at the Centre for ...

Unlike other higher education divisions, the VET sector has largely embraced the 2017 Budget, which endows the sector with $1.56 billion worth of funds. Most of this money will be used to create 300,000 new apprenticeships in high-demand fields like ...

The above audio file is a conversation between Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor professor Simon Maddocks and Campus Review news editor Patrick Avenell. Maddocks and Avenell interface specifically on the 2017 Federal Budget's impact on the university sector and CDU, and ...

Honey and poo are an unlikely combination, but it was these substances, together with her communication skills, that won Dr Nural Cokcetin best young Australian science communicator. Cokcetin, a microbiologist and honey expert, clinched first prize at the national round ...

Campus Review spoke with University of Newcastle vice-chancellor professor Caroline McMillen to find out her thoughts on the 2017 Federal Budget. You can either listen to the interview in full (below) or read a lightly edited transcript of her juiciest cuts ...

Shortly after treasurer Scott Morrison delivered the 2017 Federal Budget, Campus Review interviewed James Cook University vice-chancellor professor Sandra Harding via email to receive her thoughts. CR: How do you think the changes to funding for higher education will impact ...

Professor Greg Hill is the vice-chancellor of the University of the Sunshine Coast. USC has experienced some pain and some gain from the 2017 Federal Budget. Like other VCs, Hill lamented another cut to funding, known in the Federal Government's ...