The average person could be ingesting 2000 tiny pieces of plastic every week – the equivalent of a credit card – with drinking water the largest source. The No Plastic in Nature report from the University of Newcastle, commissioned by ...

Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our fourth weekly roundup. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. Our most popular story by far this week was the University of Alabama’s ...

The University of Alabama has denied that its decision to return a gift of $21.5 million had to do with the donor’s views on abortion. Hugh Culverhouse Jr pledged to donate $26.5 million over four years and was $5 million ...

Established in March 2017 through a bequest by the Ramsay Foundation, the Ramsay Centre’s objective is to reinvigorate the study of Western civilisation in Australia. The Centre aims to have its program taught in two to three universities initially, mainly ...

It sometimes takes a while for dictionaries to catch up with usage. One of the latest additions to the Oxford English Dictionary online is the transitive sense of the verb spruik, ‘to talk about or promote/publicise something’, to add to ...

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is an ambitious and much needed undertaking. By 2020, 460,000 people will participate in the scheme. That’s roughly one in every 40 Australians. The NDIS will give people with a disability choice and control ...

Analytics and AI are combining to provide fantastic insights into “student learning and progress”. While today’s learning platforms can provide basic feedback on, say, how much of text a student has read or whether they have completed a section of ...

In looking at ways to comprehensively restructure its first year student program, Victoria University chose to abandon the “industrial model of education that is very hard to change”. Professor Marcia Devlin, VU’s senior deputy vice-chancellor, was presenting at this week’s ...

With the national election settled, the vocational education and training (VET) sector will look to early implementation of recommendations in the Joyce Review of VET as funded in the 2019/20 national budget. The higher education (HE) sector anticipates forthcoming advice ...

Muslim nursing and midwifery students at Western Sydney University now have the option to wear its first branded hijab for clinical practice. Dr Rakime Elmir, co-creator of the program and WSU deputy director of clinical education, said the hijab – which ...