Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Today we’re starting our weekly roundup of the key stories and issues of the week. You can either read the summary or listen to the podcast below. In the wake of ...

Four Corners is breaching the ABC’s editorial guidelines relating to impartial and accurate reporting, according to the CEO of the International Education Association of Australia. In an interview with Campus Review today, Phil Honeywood said Four Corners’ Cash Cow program, ...

In an age where science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) disciplines receive the lion’s share of policy attention and funding, you can understand how those in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) feel a bit miffed. Despite cultural and ...

Teachers could be forgiven for approaching professional learning with a degree of ambivalence. With unrelenting administrative tasks, classroom teaching, preparation and marking, there is always the risk that such learning becomes an encumbrance, a “tick-the-box” registration requirement rather than the critical ...

In contrast to the sanguine, laughing faces of students you see on most university marketing flyers and websites, a uni student’s life is no walk in the park. It’s not supposed to be: the whole purpose of enrolment is to ...

Monday to Friday, behind a desk, in the one place. This is the standard – and much-bemoaned – model for work life. It’s also the model for much of pre-tertiary education, from kindergarten to Year 12. Is this monotonous, precisely ...

Final year school students and university undergraduates are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of anxiety that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making. That’s the view of University ...

Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture, and the sun; regulates temperature; produces hormones; stores bodily substances; and indicates medical conditions. Now, it can potentially add another role to its arsenal: ...

Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University has just scooped the title of 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year. As one of the 13 winners at the Australian ...

Despite the fact that people with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed, over a fifth of employers that claim they’re open to more inclusive hiring practices aren’t following through. While 79 per cent say they would hire someone with a ...