Why wouldn’t you want to lead the University of Canberra? That’s what professor Deep Saini asked Campus Review on his first day as vice-chancellor. Taking the reins last Thursday, September 1, Saini endorsed UC as “a very attractive institution at ...

The University of Tasmania and the state it serves have a powerful connection; revitalising higher education can be the key to a return to prosperity. At a time when regional campuses in Australia appear under threat, the news that the ...

A world of higher learning and opportunities can be found on university campuses;but disadvantaged students often must see it to desire it. When I was 11 years old, I went with a church boys’ club to visit Melbourne University. We ...

Diversity is an oft-used, and possibly overused, word in higher education – diversity of our students, diversity of our staff, diversity of our institutions and diversity of our missions – but what does a diverse system look like? Within a ...

This is a transcript of a speech delivered by professor Brian Schmidt, the Australian National University’s vice-chancellor, at the launch of the 2016 Crawford Australian Leadership Forum.  An innovative nation is one that readies itself for challenges not yet imagined. ...

Retaining and promoting women in STEM fields and academia requires sweeping reforms in structure and mindset – and that’s as it should be. Late last year, a car was sent to pick up one of our female professors to take ...

Closing the gap between men and women in the workplace requires sweeping cultural change. Real progress has been made towards gender equality over recent decades and these hard-won achievements are nothing to be disparaged. However, there remains much to be ...

Call it a budding innovation ecosystem, or an education turf war. Either way, universities have their sights set on Sydney’s west. But the vice-chancellor of Western Sydney University has argued the incoming education boom could be brought to a bumper-to-bumper ...

One of the most interesting cities in Australia is going through an educational and cultural revolution. The Gold Coast is known internationally for its fabulous beaches and waterways and iconic high-rise skyline abutting the ocean. More than 12 million people ...

Australian higher education perpetuates inequality, and ATAR should be scrapped and university places recapped to help fix the situation. That’s the argument University of Canberra vice-chancellor professor Stephen Parker made in remarks to the TJ Ryan Foundation this week. Parker’s comments came after a ...