The casualisation of academic staff is nothing new in Australia – Campus Review has covered the topic many times and yet the problem seems to only get worse. (Kate Prendergast’s story A vision for radical university change illustrates the extent of ...

The latest SEEK employment report shows job advertisements for education and training had the third highest growth (3 per cent) in the year to November 2019, despite a significant drop in job ads nationally. Community services and development led the ...

This late 20th century invention finds a word for the diet-conscious individual who likes to vary their food, rather than align with prescriptive practices on the dietary spectrum. Flexitarianism gains traction with people not fully in sync with either of ...

With wage stagnation and frequent reports of underemployment and underpayment rife, the SEEK 2020 Trends report is a valuable guide for people in making sensible, evidence-based decisions on the career/s they wish to enter. These employment trends are critical in ...

Katie Rose Guest Pryal is very different from me. Firstly, she’s a woman with a prolific career in a range of industries. Second, she’s an adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, so she’s ...

Australians don’t see the benefit of lifelong learning and seem cavalier about safeguarding their occupations in the future, a new study has found. This is in spite of dramatic work changes already affecting the country and likely to gain even ...

No matter what section of society you speak to, there seems to be a sense of pity felt for K-12 teachers. After all, they teach our youth through much of their most difficult years and cop their fair share of ...

A balanced diet has always been the pathway to good health. Yet anxieties about it have fuelled the unstoppable growth of complementary medicines and “functional foods”, called nutraceuticals (the standard spelling) – rather than nutriceuticals, as you might expect, if ...

Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Once upon a time, having a degree – yes, any degree – was seen as a guarantee to getting into the workforce and eventually working up the ranks. You can either ...

The adjective woke, in the sense of “being alert to social injustice”, has had a meteoric rise in the last two years. It originated in African-American slang in the phrase stay woke, first recorded in the 1970s. But its usage ...