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High school students and aged-care residents will link up to learn about online safety. University of the Sunshine Coast researchers and campus-based organisation iDcare, which supports victims of identity crime, launched the program in an effort to reduce online identity ...

If the incitement of debate on controversial topics was the goal of the Edu Tech conference taking place in Brisbane this week, then its organisers must have been thrilled with the presentation of MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Addressing ...

A new course is set to help war veterans transition back into civilian life, giving them the skills they need to move into non-military employment. The Skills Training and Reintegration Initiative for Veterans Education (STRIVE) program is believed to be ...

Most universities should focus on their own unique advantages for the best chance at enduring success with their brand. Recent legislative changes and the higher Australian dollar are making universities work harder than ever to attract students. To do this ...

Learning outside the classroom has the educational and emotional benefits conducive for optimal learning, new La Trobe research shows. Professor Margaret Robertson, lead editor of the new book Experiencing the Outdoors: Enhancing Strategies for Wellbeing, said the findings showed students ...

Australia’s top science students say competition for jobs and the cost of university degrees are the biggest barriers to their career goals. In a recent survey of some of the most talented secondary science students, more than 80 per cent revealed concerns that ...

Plagiarism is crystal meth to academia; and with fraud once again in the national headlines, it’s timely to take a look at its real causes, and the role academics can play in limiting it.  The doctor changed my medication. I ...

In Campus Review’s latest podcast, UQ emeritus professor Graeme Turner explains why his landmark report Mapping the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia, is vital to the sector’s future viability. Recently launched at the National Press Club, the report ...

The Coalition will spend the next three weeks negotiating with cross-bench senators over amendments to its higher-education reforms that would allow the government’s contentious legislation package to pass the upper house. A three-week break in parliamentary sitting follows the release ...

The Coalition Government has given its clearest indication yet that it will drop plans to introduce real interest rates to HECS-HELP loans as it works to pass its higher-education reform bill through the Senate. In its eagerly anticipated report stemming ...