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Education Editor Antonia Maiolo speaks to Ian Li an economist based at the School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia. Li discusses the role of schools' socioeconomic status in determining academic performance at university which was the ...

Fed up with repeated spam emails from faux journals seeking submissions, I decided to have some fun; the results were initially amusing but ultimately concerning. By Peter Vamplew As a computer science researcher, I first encountered predatory, spam-driven publishers during ...

A senior University of Queensland marine environment researcher has waded into the political milieu following Barack Obama’s recent speech at his university after Australian Government figures criticised the US president’s concerns regarding the Great Barrier Reef. In his UQ address, which ...

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 ...

VET deregulation measures the government recently announced have been met with a sigh of relief in the sector and are long overdue, Rohan Cresp writes. Each tranche of reform for the VET sector in recent years – and there have ...

The University of Sydney has suspended professor Barry Spurr as the fallout continues following the publishing of apparently racist comments contained within emails he had authored. Excerpts of the emails, published yesterday by news site New Matilda, included references by ...

Here’s what a VET assessment expert has to say about the government’s proposed reforms. By John Mitchell Who would you rather make the final decisions about the standards required for training providers in Australia, bureaucrats or educators? The federal government has ...

The NTEU has called for greater transparency in university financial reporting after it was forced to issue a correction of its own analysis of data purporting to reveal the value of Australian VC remuneration packages. A policy briefing paper released ...

Internationally renowned environmental sustainability expert Tim Flannery, has recently taken up a Professorial fellowship role with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne. In an extended interview with Campus Review, Flannery accused Tony Abbott of insulting Australians ...

Overall, the Higher Education and Research Reform Bill is a package of legislation that is critical if Australia is to have a world-class higher education system. The HELP scheme, which is brilliant and the best scheme in the world but not ...