There is a link between universities’ performance in pervasive global rankings charts and their use of social media to communicate with students, a representative from social media management site Hootsuite has argued. Ben Mulligan, marketing manager for Hootsuite Australia and New ...

The Grattan Institute’s higher education program director, Andrew Norton, expressed concern over the federal government’s cap on vocational student loans announced this week. He said the government’s plan simply adapted Labor’s one-size-fits all cap into a “three- sizes-fit-all approach”. Earlier in ...

The Australian National University has offered its School of Music a $12.5 million boost after admitting mismanagement allowed “distrust and emotional stress to fester” within the faculty. This week, ANU released its final report into the school, written by professor ...

Former prime minister John Howard has been sarcastically labelled “a cracker of a role model” by University of Southern Queensland vice-chancellor professor Jan Thomas. This was in response to Howard’s comments at the National Press Club in September, where he ...

A University of Queensland workshop has aimed to help teachers from 15 regional Queensland high schools become better at teaching science by linking them with university researchers. The teachers worked with the scientists for a week, investigating cancer cell biology. ...

Southern Cross University’s new vice-chancellor, professor Adam Shoemaker, wants SCU to become the Charles Sturt University of the New South Wales north coast – while at the same time distinguishing itself from other regional institutions. Speaking to Campus Review shortly ...

Edith Cowan University vice-chancellor professor Steve Chapman has embraced the title feminist, calling on others to do the same. At Campus Review’s recent Higher Equity conference, Chapman apologised “for everything white male vice-chancellors have ever done”. Chapman, like broadcaster Alan ...

The University of Newcastle has unveiled its first MOOC, and it covers the rather obscure subject of natural history illustration. Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural history illustration is to commence on October 26 and will be taught by UON academics and illustrators Dr ...

The preliminary findings of a Deakin University study suggest that the key to fighting Islamophobia is teaching people about Islam. The preliminary findings of the Muslims and Islamic Religiosity in the West research project included 57 per cent of 304 survey responses ...

Tertiary education needs a transparent and independent federal financing body to ensure funding is allocated on the basis of a solid evidence base, a new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has argued. A New System for Financing Australian Tertiary ...