Are payday lenders and similar alternate credit sources irredeemable loan sharks or providers or an essential service? Ashton de Silva is an associate professor and economist at RMIT University. He has published a discussion paper titled Housing deprivation or financial debt: ...

The federal government is looking to bring Indonesian VET trainers to Australia, so they can learn and return to educate their homeland. Karen Andrews, federal assistant minister for vocational education and skills, said this is part of an effort to ...

Victoria University has confirmed that 115 jobs will be cut throughout the year as it establishes its planned First Year College. VU provost and deputy vice-chancellor professor Kerri-Lee Krause said 115 staff members “will exit the university over the course ...

Bond University's Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice has published a paper in Annals of Family Medicine that details how parents vastly overestimate the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat childhood maladies. The paper's senior author, professor of clinical epidemiology Tammy Hoffmann, ...

For Andy Sheats, improving the student experience is tied to greater transparency in higher education. Recently announced as Open Universities Australia’s new executive general manager of student experience, Sheats wants to use data to help students make their study choices. ...

What is innovation? According to the editor of a new report calling for the modernisation of higher education, this is a question the sector is yet to answer. Dr Rod Gutierrez, director of higher education strategy at business consultancy Lee ...

Born in 1915, Aboriginal activist Shirley Andrews studied science at the University of Melbourne in the 1930s before going on to work for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the precursor of the CSIRO. She was a staunch political ...

In 2017, there are Australian universities that still haven’t appointed a single woman to the position of professor of mathematics, a renowned mathematician has said in her keynote speech. And what grinds the gears of professor Nalini Joshi, the University ...

Michael Evans is the managing director of Dell Boomi, a cloud-based integration company that brings together the student and faculty data developed and stored in various apps and programs and across desktop and mobile devices. Evans joined Campus Review to ...

The cost of going to university has risen dramatically and is set to inflate even further, new research from the Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has shown. The ASG Planning for University Index, which modeled the rising costs of higher education ...