Forcing universities to publish the true ATAR cut-offs for their courses and creating a MySchool-style website allowing students to compare the admissions standards of various courses is on the reform agenda for federal education minister Simon Birmingham. Birmingham has announced ...

With 'essay mills' now well established in higher education, it seems some firms are now stumbling into the public relations and journalism arena. A "content writer and blogger" approached Campus Review recently with an article he had prepared – unsolicited – ...

Throughout the early twentieth century, anthropologist, biologist and zoologist Baldwin Spencer published several influential books that argued the case that Indigenous Australians were primitive and culturally inferior to the British. At the same time, he was a meticulous genealogist and ...

The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School has leaped into the top ten of Bloomberg’s international MBA ranking. MBS climbed 14 spots to claim spot number nine on the list. No other Australian institutions appear in the chart that lists ...

A new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has shown that public VET spending has declined to its lowest level in 10 years. Expenditure on education and training in Australia showed that total taxpayer spending is now at $5.7 billion, ...

Electronics giant Samsung and the University of Canberra have entered into a research partnership to find out how spatial reasoning can improve STEM education. Spatial reasoning refers to a person’s ability to visualise three-dimensional objects. For example, one uses spatial ...

The incoming chair of Group of Eight has indicated he would like to see the funding distortions affecting disciplines like veterinary science, medicine, agriculture and dentistry to be corrected. Professor Peter Høj, who is also vice-chancellor of the University of ...

New research shows teenagers still enjoy the age-old practice of sitting down and reading a hard-copy book. The preliminary findings of a study from Deakin University and Murdoch University researchers found that three-quarters of 12- to 16-year-olds prefer to read paper ...

Senior university figures, along with federal education minister Simon Birmingham have been gathering in Melbourne this week to discuss how philanthropy can be increased and utilised as a financing option by higher education providers. As it stands, the Commonwealth – ...

As the dust settles on the government’s proposed changes to VET-FEE HELP, we should be reminded of the need for proper consultation prior to broad reforms. VET-FEE HELP, Australia’s vocational loans scheme, has always typified my idea of the Aussie ...