A dazzling spectacle confronts visitors stepping into the atrium at Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) brand new Peter Coaldrake Education Precinct at its Kelvin Grove campus: a five-metre diameter digital sphere, suspended from the ceiling and displaying fully digital content ...
More »Leadership in education series – episode 1: Innovation and the future
Despite record investment in education, Australian students’ literacy and numeracy levels have been steadily declining. This podcast series speaks with some of Australia’s K-12 education leaders and asks the key question: What, if anything, are we doing wrong? In episode ...
More »‘Millions wasted’: petition calls for national inquiry to streamline research approvals
Robust regulatory requirements are essential to research, particularly in the field of health and medicine. The approvals procedure acts as a check against misconduct and risk, minimising harm to the participants and organisations involved. Yet in Australia, many researchers believe ...
More »NTEU drops Ramsay Centre suit against UOW
Australia’s tertiary education union had dropped legal action against the University of Wollongong (UOW) after the university’s council approved the controversial Ramsay Centre Western Civilisation Degree in June. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), which commenced legal action in the ...
More »Weekly roundup 6: Heavy metal research, the n-word and ‘golden oldie’ universities
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 ...
More »‘Sport on display’: La Trobe Sports Park enters stage two
La Trobe University is excited to see its purpose-built Sports Park move into stage two, with works commencing on teaching and research areas for sport science subjects including biomechanics, strength and conditioning exercise physiology and sports analytics. La Trobe Sports ...
More »Australia’s best ‘golden oldie’ universities
Australian universities’ performance in the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings has been eclipsed by the release of the Times Higher Education “Golden Age” Rankings, which lists the best universities in the world older than 50 but younger than 80. The Australian ...
More »New archive challenges Aboriginal Australia’s political history
The political history of Aboriginal Australians is being reappraised and rewritten through Victoria University’s Aboriginal History Archive (AHA). Containing thousands of digitised and rare photos, videos, campaign ephemera, press clippings and manuscripts, the collection covers the self-determination movement that swept ...
More »Resilience key to regional communications experts: study
We all know that being resilient is a necessary skill in life, being able to bounce back after life serves us lemons. But new research has found that it’s even more critical for communications professionals living in regional Australia. The ...
More »Student calls out ‘racism’ at Cambridge in PhD withdrawal letter
The University of Cambridge is making headlines this week after a PhD student publicly announced she was withdrawing from her studies due to the racism she says she witnessed. In a piece written for open publishing platform Medium, Indiana Seresin ...
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