Campus Review spoke with University of Newcastle vice-chancellor professor Caroline McMillen to find out her thoughts on the 2017 Federal Budget. You can either listen to the interview in full (below) or read a lightly edited transcript of her juiciest cuts ...

The University of Adelaide has taken a step towards a cooler planet with the unveiling of its Campus Sustainability Plan. The $14.4 million plan is in line with South Australia’s desire for zero carbon emissions by 2050. Most of these ...

Professor Margaret Gardner is the vice-chancellor of Monash University. In an interview the morning after the 2017 Federal Budget, she spoke passionately and powerfully with Campus Review about the real-world deleterious impact funding cuts to universities will have across the ...

In 2003, Tasmania became the first state in Australia to repeal the use of “gay panic” as a provocation defence; and in March 2017, Queensland became the latest state to revoke its use. This leaves South Australia at odds with ...

On the fifth anniversary of the demand-driven university quota system, introduced by Julia Gillard’s Labor government, there are mixed feelings about its efficacy. On the one hand, Conor King, executive director of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU), claims it’s a ...

The Higher Education Reform Package report, released on 1 May 2017 by education minister Simon Birmingham, has already generated a lot of heated commentary from both sides of the debate. With the Coalition’s previous higher education reforms – spearheaded by then ...

Effective online education doesn’t involve simply uploading a document onto cyberspace, Adam Brimo, the chief executive of educational technology start-up OpenLearning, has said. Speaking about a new partnership his company signed with the University of New South Wales, Brimo said: ...

Professor Jane den Hollander’s review of the Australian excursion to India is of great optimism and vigour, with no disappointments from the trip. Of the many new deals – forged by politicians and vice-chancellors – most focus on international education ...

Abena Dove isn’t your typical troublesome university student union president. As president of the RMIT University Student Union (RUSU), she describes her professional relationship with her vice-chancellor, professor Martin Bean, as “incredible”. “When I say it to a room of ...

“I went to university and I hated it.” That phrase sums up the no-holds-barred approach of Dr Catherine Ball when she spoke at the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit at Queensland University of Technology last week. Ball is chief ...