The stretched budgets of governments across the world could be the dawn of a learning revolution, says a leading educator from the UK. Professor Stephen Heppell, the chair in New Media Environments at Bournemouth University’s Centre for Excellence in Media ...

The University of New South Wales needs to be more active in the provision of student care at the Australian Defence Force Academy, the university’s student president says. Osman Faruqi, SRC president at UNSW, which runs ADFA’s academic program, said ...

The University of Queensland is moving to change and tighten rules around student admissions after the resignations of its vice- chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor following revelations of irregularity in the enrolment of a student known to them. Changes to the admissions ...

The retention rate for commencing bachelor degree students in Australia has increased from 81 per cent in 2001 to 84 per cent in 2009, while the completion rate has increased from 72 per cent in 2005 to 80 per cent ...

Valuable foreign medical students are being deterred from Australian study by anxiety about the graduate internship bottleneck, says global migration researcher, Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne. Professor Hawthorne is associate dean international at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and ...

Funding changes that will see courses below bachelor’s degrees removed from the demand-driven system have been cautiously embraced by the TAFE sector but will not protect that sector from being plundered by universities, experts say. The federal government announced last ...

The Queensland government has defended its controversial decision to deny specialist health care to international students at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. State health minister Geoff Wilson told Campus Review the state “made no apology” for refusing obstetric and ...

Australian researchers should not waver in the face of scurrilous attacks on climate-change action, says adjunct Professor Roy Neel, the long-time chief of staff to former US vice-president Al Gore. Neel is visiting Australia for a month at the invitation ...

A you-beaut program is teaching pharmacy students the Aussie lingo.  Pharmacy students from international backgrounds are learning Australian colloquialisms - as a matter of life and death. “Someone might tell a pharmacist they have a gut-ache, had a chunder, caught ...

 Eleanor Bath, a science student at the University of NSW with a fascination for evolutionary biology, has been announced as the 2012 NSW Rhodes Scholar. She will travel to Oxford next year where she will undertake a DPhil in the ...