Federation University Australia has opted not to build a new facility in Warrnambool, a regional centre of 30,000 people on Victoria's south-west coast, 170 kilometres away from its main campus in Ballarat. “There is already a significant number of students from ...

The re-elected Coalition Government’s foremost priority should be to reassure all Australians that the nation will not be left behind in the global and economic transition now underway, Universities Australia chair professor Barney Glover said in a statement. “This election ...

ANU is set to receive what is understood to be Australia’s largest ever personal philanthropic contribution, in an arrangement worth about $200 million. Graham and Louise Tuckwell announced the details of their contribution this week. It will be spread out over the next ...

An icebound island of Antarctica has been named after the University of Tasmania's foundation professor of geology. The Carey Nunatak, named for professor Samuel Warren Carey, lies 360 kilometres northeast of Davis Station, which is an Australian-administered island just off the icy ...

In Episode 7 of Talking Eds, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review discuss an ambitious plan to withhold cash from families whose kids are missing school, an award winning app to detect autism and why ...

Census night in Australia is coming up – and, quite literally, everyone is invited compelled to participate! On August 9, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will conduct the Census of Population and Housing, a quinquennial tradition dating back to 1828. In the lead-up ...

In a new series at Campus Review, we visit with academics and researchers to discuss their studies. In this installment, we virtually cross the Tasman to speak with University of Waikato PhD completer Nick Braae, who has a love of ...

Mixing business, leisure and education on the same network can create challenges for network capacity. By Bruce Miller. At most higher-education institutions today, you’ll find students, faculty and staff struggling with consistently bad internet. It’s hard to believe these are places of ...

In a new series at Campus Review, we visit with academics and researchers to discuss their studies. In our first installment, we meet a high-achieving UniSA PhD candidate who recently made headlines for groundbreaking insights into the drunkorexia phenomenon.  CR: ...

Don't expect any significant changes to higher-education policy from the incoming Parliament. That's the message from Andrew Norton, tertiary education expert at think tank The Grattan Institute. Because of the unwieldy nature of the new Senate, not to mention the fact ...