Good campus design speaks to the place and culture in which an institution sits, a leading architect has said. Robert McGauran, founding director of MGS Architects, said universities need to include the broader community in design plans in order to understand how ...

Australia needs a consistent innovation incentive for business to invest in research and development, a report has argued. Australia relies on the R&D Tax Incentive to encourage businesses to invest in research and development. Businesses that put $20,000 into R&D ...

Universities don’t lack innovation, they just don’t share knowledge with one another effectively, the leader of a US network of universities has said. As a consequence, universities frequently double up on research, Bridget Burns said. Burns is executive director of the ...

Research funds should be allocated based on commercialisation success as well as quality, the new chair of Innovation Australia has said. Speaking to Campus Review, Ferris reiterated the federal government’s message of establishing a more innovative nation. He said roughly ...

The Australian Research Council has reiterated that its grants aren’t based on gender. Next year, the ARC plans to implement a range of measures to close research’s gender gap. This includes improving gender balance on grant selection committees, investigating options ...

A new website may change the way universities source their casual academic staff. Federal Department of Education statistics show that in 2013, there were 69,331 casual academic staff – both acting casual and full-time equivalent – in Australian universities. Of this ...

Labor has joined private VET’s peak body in a push for the sector to have a national ombudsman. Rod Camm, Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) chief executive, recommended the establishment of a national VET ombudsman following a ...

Domestic students' demand for Open Universities Australia’s MOOCs is soaring. Open2Study, OUA’s MOOC provider, has reported 36 per cent of its students are Australian – doubling since September last year. India and the US are Open2Study’s two leading international markets but ...

Education must learn to get better at getting better, an expert has said. In a guest lecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, professor Tony Bryk, president of the US-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said education fails ...