The higher education landscape in Australia has altered dramatically since the first issue of Campus Review hit the stands in August 1991. The past twenty years is testament to the fact that universities are both resilient and adaptable. Through the ...

On the third day of the recent riots in England I was sitting in the community college in Dubbo NSW, 500 km west of Sydney, examining educational programs designed to give second chances to previously disengaged people, particularly Aboriginal people. ...

The world of education is a funny place. It remains one of the last bastions of the struggle between the classes - only in this instance it is the struggle between academic and vocational. In Canberra, a decision has been ...

Academics – and particularly historians – must have stifled a laugh when they read Fred Hilmer’s prescription for a “brave new world” of university governance. (Campus Review, June 14). According to the UNSW vice-chancellor, modern university governance needs fewer elected ...

As the embryonic Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) takes form, the five standards domains – Provider, Qualifications, Teaching & Learning, Research and Information Standards – are currently works in progress. At this stage the Information Standards domain appears ...

If the Certificate III in Aged Care Work and the Certificate IV Assessor and Trainer were designed to be the cornerstones of education and skill development for workers in aged care there is a problem. My experience with these qualifications began ...

One of the exciting and challenging ways in which New Zealand and Australia has changed over the past 50 or so years has been the explosive flowering of linguistic diversity in our communities. This change has been an uneasy one ...

It’s hard to miss the story in the mass media that the Australian retail industry is in bad shape. The tales of woe are relentless: sudden increase in online purchases from overseas providers, mass closures of local bookshop chains, supermarket ...

  Here in New Zealand it has been the between-semester break for education institutions, not that educators get a break with the conference season in full swing. I get a sense that a mood for change is developing. New Zealand ...

Ethics and its essential twin subject epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, are at the heart of good journalism writes Edward Spence. Socrates was probably the first investigative journalist. He is also one of the greatest philosophers as relevant and inspiring ...