A former political journalist who has spent 11 years advocating for TAFEs will now be completing a PhD on his favourite topic. Martin Riordan will step down as chief executive of TAFE Directors Australia by March next year. He told ...

Donald Trump’s election to the White House and the UK’s Brexit from the European Union has accelerated Australia’s pivot to Asia, the vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales has said. Professor Ian Jacobs said that universities switching their ...

In this week's episode of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at the history and effect of White Ribbon Day, discuss the University of Sydney's expansion in China and explore Torrens University's new ...

Taj Pabari is a 17-year-old high school student attending Brisbane’s John Paul College who has absolutely no aspiration to study at university. But he’s also chief executive of his own tech start-up, Fiftysix Creations, and spends his free time with ...

The Victorian government has today unveiled a policy that would require aspiring teachers to have an ATAR of at least 70 before enrolling in teaching degrees, from 2019 onwards. The reforms would also make it compulsory for Victorian universities to ...

The University of Sydney has placed fourth in the world in the latest iteration of QS’s graduate employability rankings, putting it ahead of institutions like Cambridge University and the University of Oxford. Above of USYD were China’s Tsinghua University (3), the ...

Deciding on a collective noun for a group of chancellors was one of the pressing issues discussed at the recent Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit. Eventually, Monash University chancellor Simon McKeon, University of Queensland chancellor Peter Varghese, La Trobe ...

Two words, 10 syllables: 'transdisciplinary innovation'. It's the new buzz-phrase going around the University of Technology Sydney. So much so that the institution has created a whole new faculty dedicated to it. And what is transdisciplinary innovation? It’s when people from ...

With the University of Sydney strengthening its ties with China, as demonstrated by the opening of its first Chinese address at the beginning of November, USYD’s vice-chancellor has sought to play down concerns that Chinese soft power could be influencing ...

Mick Grimley is the dean of education at Torrens University, which has recently introduced a graduate certificate in education (autism), specifically for teachers and other professionals who work with children with autism. Some of the stated objectives of this course are ...