University of New South Wales vice-chancellor professor Ian Jacobs has responded to his University of Sydney counterpart Michael Spence's comments yesterday regarding USYD's decision to unilaterally back out of a decision to merge the two universities' premier art colleges. UNSW ...
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UniMelb reveals 12 apostles of commercialising research
The University of Melbourne has today revealed a 12-name ledger of luminaries for its inaugural Enterprise Professors slate. This collective, which includes two former Victorian premiers among leaders of business and industry, is intended to strengthen the ties between UniMelb's ...
More »Bond bolsters law stocks with fresh trio
Three new academics have joined Bond University's Faculty of Law. A mixture of passion, dynamism and research opportunities attracted the trio to the Gold Coast campus. Professor Rachael Field is an expert on domestic and family violence and an advocate for ...
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All that collected information won’t help with the learning and teaching if it’s not measuring the right indicators. Universities around the world face increasing scrutiny, in response to rising costs and the demand that they differentiate themselves from their competitors. ...
More »Have architecture, will travel from USYD to Venice
“A very talented group of students has spent the past four months developing their designs and fabricating architectural models that reflect, both philosophically and materially, on the political, social and environmental role of architecture.” That's the message from professor Michael ...
More »UQ equality bake sale sets tongues tasting, and wagging
It was supposed to be one of the quieter moments on the University of Queensland's slate of Feminist Week calendar of events. Madeline Price and her colleagues at the UQ Union (UQU) were coming up with ideas to fill some free space that ...
More »USYD reveals 8-point strategic plan to slash degrees, expand research, manage staff and increase inclusivity
The University of Sydney has unveiled an ambitious policy document for the next five years; its direction to be guided by 8 strategies collectively comprising 29 initiatives. The headline detail from this plan is to slash around 100 degrees from ...
More »When a school deals with death
This feature was originally written for Campus Review's sister title Education Review. While the focus is on secondary school responses to student deaths, many of the issues are also applicable to the tertiary education sector. When Christopher Hall was in primary ...
More »Having fun? Join the club! It’s Campus Review’s ode to O-Week
Except for a few outliers that have already fired up the sausage sizzles, universities around Australia are now celebrating O-Week. It's a time of tote bags bulging with free lollipops, branded legionnaires caps and prophylactics, newfound and quickly forgotten interest in spelunking, ...
More »Young guns from UQ, UNSW and ANU off to exotic locales to consult, innovate and moot for Australia
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, ...
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