Universities Australia and The Hunting Ground Australia Project have launched a sector-wide campaign to prevent sexual violence. The Hunting Ground Australia project is a philanthropic effort to end sexual assault and harassment in Australia’s universities. It takes its name from critically ...

Murdoch University has confirmed that its new vice-chancellor Eeva Leinonen will commence in the role in April 2016. Leinonen is heading west to Perth from the University of Wollongong, where she is the deputy vice-chancellor (academic). Before that, Leinonen spent 19 ...

To celebrate the UN Day for Women and Girls in Science during February, Campus Review spoke to ten women engaged in the field. The women are studying, researching, teaching and promoting fields including biology, biophysics, chemistry and paleontology, among others, at ...

Scientists said they had, for the first time, detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesised by physicist Albert Einstein a century ago. The landmark discovery opens a new window for studying the cosmos. Researchers said on Thursday they detected gravitational ...

High achieving students from the University of Queensland, the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University will soon be jetting off to exotic locations to take on the world after winning national titles in their chosen fields. To Brisbane, ...

Rhetoric around youth unemployment must change, an expert has argued. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures rest youth unemployment at 12.44 per cent, although it declined in the last quarter. Debate on the issue has centred on the notion of a skills gap – education ...

A University of New South Wales student has used the toilet seat to marry two of his passions in a master's of philosophy thesis – architecture and altruism. Nick Papas partnered with the Sago Network to research how to rollout low-cost, eco-friendly toilets ...

The donor of a $1.3 million grant to the University of Wollongong argues funding education is the single best investment one can make for future generations and useful in ensuring “a bit of immortality”. Emeritus professor Ken McKinnon, former UoW ...

The University of South Australia is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2016. To mark this occasion and introduce the latest batch of cohorts to the Adelaide campus, the UniSA team has compiled a factbook highlighting 101 major achievements – "things you might not ...

The federal government is directing the Higher Education Standards Panel to examine university entrance requirements to improve transparency. This follows long-running commentary about ATAR and recent comments from professor Ian Jacobs, University of New South Wales vice-chancellor, calling for the system ...