Friday, 9am. Then five past the hour. The clock crept on. Still, the students had not arrived. Beginning to wonder if he was in the wrong lecture theatre, the professor called the subject coordinator. Nope, he was in the right ...

Australia’s higher education sector is facing significant structural changes on multiple fronts. New student demographics, technological advances, the need to partner and collaborate with industry and funding reductions are permeating the competitive sector, and in response, we’re seeing campuses around ...

A Seventh-day Adventist higher education provider in Lake Macquarie, NSW, has become Australia's first “university college”. Founded over a century ago, Avondale College of Higher Education had its new category status approved late last month by the federal government’s Tertiary Education ...

Alright, alright, alright, class. Students at the University of Texas’ Moody College of Communication might be hearing this at the beginning of their first lecture later this year after Matthew McConaughey was appointed professor of practice. The Dallas Buyers Club, Interstellar and ...

FOR THE KIDS The former pro-vice-chancellor (health) and current research professor at Griffith’s School of Medicine has been appointed chair of the Children’s Health Research Alliance. Professor Allan Cripps has been well recognised for his contributions to science and research, ...

Where trigger and content warnings are becoming increasingly institutionalised in the United States, they've been slow to catch hold in Australia (despite what conservative opinion pieces may suggest). Monash was the first university to introduce a policy in 2017, and ...

In the heat of mid-January, when every university and college in Australia was “in market” for semester one recruitment, a CSIRO scientist invented a random university slogan generator (see image), a VERY simple word randomiser. Activate, Realise, Be, Disrupt, Push, ...

A dazzling spectacle confronts visitors stepping into the atrium at Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) brand new Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct at its Kelvin Grove campus: a five-metre diameter digital sphere, suspended from the ceiling and displaying fully digital content ...

Hi and welcome to another Campus Review weekly roundup of the top news stories we covered this week. I’m Wade Zaglas, the education editor. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. All stories can be ...

RETIRING ON LAURELS One year from now, the University of Queensland’s VC, Professor Peter Høj, will be stepping down from a long era in the top job. “Under his leadership, UQ is now one of Australia’s best teaching institutions, with ...