As Australia continues to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and deal with the economic fallout, a number of universities are communicating to their staff their much-needed entitlements as well as the imperative to move online, delay the start of ...

The architect of Australia’s original Higher Education Contribution Scheme – known as HECS – is calling on the government to roll out income and revenue-based loans to soften a likely world recession. Australia National University leading economist Professor Bruce Chapman ...

New national recommendations have stated that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should have their heart checked by age 18 at the latest. These recommendations, which appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia in an article entitled ‘Cardiovascular disease risk ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is hopeful benchmarking trends will change after the Fair Work Commission ordered that a UTS academic be reinstated immediately and compensated. The Fair Work Commission this week overturned the University of Technology Sydney’s (UTS) ...

Curtin University is utilising games technology to create web-based video simulations aimed at helping mental health experts identify and better communicate with people contemplating suicide. As the World Health Organization points out, suicide is the second leading cause of death ...

[An earlier version of this story incorrectly mentioned the University of the Sunshine Coast instead of Southern Cross University. Campus Review apologises for the error.] Australia’s university sector is continuing to be severely affected by the effects of COVID-19, with ...

The Australian Research Council’s practices and guidelines were scrutinised heavily last week during a senate estimates hearing chaired by Senator Kim Carr. The committee was told that no ARC-funded research projects had breached the Defence Control Act, despite the ARC ...

Creative industries students at The University of Newcastle will soon get to work with some of Australia’s best musicians and artists as part of an Australian-first partnership between the university and music label BMG Australia. The university’s School of Creative ...

The University of Sydney has halted spending and warned of potential job losses as it grapples with a $200 million financial hit due to coronavirus. USYD will cease expenditure on non-essential projects, ban unneeded travel and also freeze recruitment, The ...

Western media’s coverage of female prime ministers’ gender and gender traits is getting worse, according to Australian National University (ANU) researcher Blair Williams. Williams explored the gendered nature of the news cycle in Australia, the UK and New Zealand as ...