A new study from Western Sydney University has found that Australian eucalyptus trees can’t store as much carbon as previously thought, throwing into question the commonly held assumption that planting more trees will help manage climate change caused by greenhouse ...

This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher to learn more about them and their work. Glenn Savage has recently co-authored (with Tom Bentley) Educating Australia: Challenges for the Decade Ahead, a book ...

The cost of going to university has risen dramatically and is set to inflate even further, new research from the Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has shown. The ASG Planning for University Index, which modeled the rising costs of higher education ...

NSW tertiary students are calling for a standardised support system for women who experience sexual assault or rape on university and TAFE campuses. The student-led petition is urging mandatory training on sexual consent for residents and staff in residential colleges ...

When billionaire businessman and philanthropist Andrew Forrest comes knocking, you open the door. That’s what Perth’s Telethon Kids Institute did, and together with Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation, they’ve launched CoLab, an initiative aimed at helping vulnerable children by coordinating stakeholders and ...

The federal government is undertaking a review to form a policy blueprint for helping country students have the same educational opportunities as their city counterparts. Federal education minister Simon Birmingham said that around one-third of country students don’t complete Year ...

The good lexicographical folks at Macquarie Dictionary have done the teachers of Australia a great service this week, decoding some of the patois overwhelming uni quads in 2017. Presented below are some of more interesting new additions — 'neologism' in the ...

Converting rust belts into brain belts. That’s how Dutch economist and author Antoine van Agtmael describes the process of transitioning a nation’s economy from an uncompetitive manufacturing or resources base to one that thrives off the products developed by a ...

Federal Labor has flagged further reforms to increase flexibility in the demand-driven system of university funding if it comes to power at the next election. Addressing the Universities Australia conference in Canberra on Thursday 2 March 2017, shadow education minister ...

Universities “are, and always will be, bigger than the nation state” said incoming chair of Universities Australia (UA) professor Margaret Gardner to the lobby group’s annual conference today. She implored its member institutions to rally against the waves of populist ...