The global pandemic we speak of as coronavirus has been declared a "force majeure’’. It overrides previous considerations and requires the cancellation of what we know and have accepted as ‘normal’. It comes in the footsteps of Australian environmental catastrophes ...

Anyone who tells you they know what is going to happen to Australia’s extraordinarily valuable international student market is having you on. They can’t know, because it will all depend on things that haven’t happened yet.  We don’t know what will ...

With the COVID-19 crisis, universities across the world have turned to distance delivery. If you are an academic habituated with face-to-face delivery, this shift may have been a challenge. Teaching for student satisfaction and success in a distance learning environment ...

In May, Campus Review spoke with Alwyn Louw as he commenced his new role as vice-chancellor of Torrens University. Starting any new job can be challenging at the best of times, but thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, new Torrens University ...

Following new plans for “job ready” graduates released by the Commonwealth Government, Australian universities are in turmoil. This follows persistent opposition by the government to prevent universities from participating in JobKeeper. Commonwealth Government plans announced by Minister Dan Tehan will ...

At the beginning of 2020, no one could have predicted that within six months people around the world would be breathing cleaner air, carbon emissions would decline, people would reach out to help neighbours they once barely knew, and we ...

The recent discussion about the appropriateness or otherwise of putting fact check notices on social media posts has once again raised profoundly important questions which concern truth and free speech. This article re-ignites a more specific concern raised in November ...

The rigour vs relevance debate has raged in business schools since their inception. In the early days, most professors were retired or were very experienced executives whose role was to narrate war stories to students. Students found their education highly ...

Options to address the massive COVID-19 related hits to university revenue are being considered and implemented. Many universities had large capital projects underway and infrastructure plans in development when the virus hit. One option for budget management that has appeared ...

A series of government reviews over the past year highlights why it’s no longer appropriate to look at tertiary education as a binary choice for students, presented as a choice between undertaking study in the higher education sector or the ...