Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to another edition of our weekly wrap up where you can catch up on the biggest higher education news stories we covered this week. You can either listen to the ...
More »News of the week: Australia becoming a science and social science heavyweight – Podcast
Education editor Wade Zaglas here, focusing on the top stories of the week. You can either listen to the podcast or read the summary below. One story that struck me as particularly impressive was Australia being ranked fifth in the ...
More »Regulators must serve interests of both agriculture and environment: Podcast
A new study led by Dr Jon Brodie from the ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University is deeply concerned that harmful insecticides, including Imidacloprid, are damaging some of Australia's most pristine and biodiverse waterways. ...
More »Issue of the week 1: Should all university funding be accepted? Podcast
Guilt by association has always been a vexed issue, but in the era of #metoo and corporate and social responsibility, careers can disappear overnight, lives can be destroyed, and reputations can be irrevocably damaged. That might be the situation facing a teacher ...
More »Podcast: News of the week – women dominate the PM’s science awards
Last week we celebrated the Prime Minister’s Award for Science, an important time to acknowledge Australian scientific work that has promising applications or has changed the world. And this year, women took out the majority of the awards. This year’s ...
More »Podcast: Dr Sara James – The ATAR issue and factors that influence course decisions
Dr Sara James is a lecturer and cultural sociologist at La Trobe University in Melbourne and has completed research on the factors that influence students' degree and course choices. As James' work has found, one of the key factors influencing ...
More »Podcast: News just in | Murdoch launches counterclaim against whistleblower
The Four Corners 'Cash Cows' program, which aired in May, caused a scandal throughout Australia's higher education sector. The program focused on how universities were treating international students as proverbial "cash cows" and waiving or simplifying English language requirements to maximise ...
More »Podcast: Ramsay Centre rejects University of Sydney proposal
Ramsay Centre chief executive Professor Simon Haines has rejected The University of Sydney's latest proposal to modify the Centre's Western Civilisation degree. The modification involved reducing the full major to just two subjects and allowing far more students to access ...
More »This week’s big issue | Ridd prepares for JCU appeal
Former James Cook University academic and world-renowned expert in marine physics Professor Peter Ridd has started a GoFundMe page to cover legal costs needed to continue his fight against JCU’s unfair dismissal claim. In mid-April the Federal Circuit Court ordered ...
More »Gender equality at UTS: the soapbox
Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our new soapbox segment where we discuss some of the more the more controversial issues of the week. The University of Technology Sydney has made a decision to raise ...
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