New analysis has highlighted a 6 per cent decline in government-funded VET students across Australia between 2015 and 2018, sparking concerns about the state of the sector. However, two jurisdictions bucked the trend by showing growth, analysis by Claire Field ...

Our two-million-year-old ancestors continually breastfed infants from birth until they were about one year old, an analysis of teeth has revealed. Led by Southern Cross University and Monash University, the international team behind the study looked at teeth from Australopithecus ...

A Queensland university professor who was unlawfully sacked for breaching confidentiality directions is back in court. The hearing in the Brisbane Federal Circuit Court on Thursday and today will determine what penalties James Cook University should pay for dismissing Professor ...

There are many fad and buzz words in the higher education sphere. Most recently the terms ‘authentic learning’ and ‘authentic assessment’ have been spruiked as essential to good pedagogy. But what is authentic assessment and do we need it in ...

Hi and welcome to another Campus Review weekly roundup of the top news stories we covered this week. I’m Wade Zaglas, the education editor. All stories can be found on our site, campusreview.com.au. You can either read this summary or ...

Six Australian universities have secured a top 100 ranking in The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings for 2019 – doubling its representation since last year. The University of Melbourne was Australia’s highest ranked institution this year, coming in equal ...

The Grattan Institute is to end its Higher Education Program, coinciding with the departure of the program’s director Andrew Norton in September. The program has been around as long as Grattan has, launching eight years ago, with Norton its leader ...

“I did it, but…” Teachers hear this phrase a lot when asking students to hand in their homework, but perhaps it’ll be said a little less thanks to a new Deakin University project. Engineers designed a smart school bag that ...

The inaugural report into the risk factor of Australia’s higher education sector has just been released, with the overwhelming majority of providers posing a low to moderate risk to students. The Tertiary Educations and Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA) grouped providers ...

A wall of inequality was built into our post-schooling system decades ago, and today its legacy has left us with an educational caste system of haves and have-nots. Despite countless reviews and attempts to break it down, this wall is ...