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The University of Alabama has denied that its decision to return a gift of $21.5 million had to do with the donor’s views on abortion. Hugh Culverhouse Jr pledged to donate $26.5 million over four years and was $5 million ...

With the national election settled, the vocational education and training (VET) sector will look to early implementation of recommendations in the Joyce Review of VET as funded in the 2019/20 national budget. The higher education (HE) sector anticipates forthcoming advice ...

This week several Sydney councils decided they would review the use of the weedkiller Roundup, which contains the hotly debated chemical glyphosate. Two Australian law firms – including Maurice Blackburn – are investigating the potential for a class lawsuit against ...

Alleging James Cook University is in a “conspiracy” to ruin his career, a PhD Philosophy student is suing the university for $3.125 million in damages and compensation. In a 20-page petition submitted to the Supreme Court, 52-year-old Kuldeep Mann claims ...

Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our second roundup of the key stories and issues of the week. You can either read the summary or listen to the podcast below. First, the controversial Ramsay Centre ...

This year’s federal election was overshadowed by an event many thought might push the Opposition over the line: the passing of Labor Party “son” and charismatic reformer Bob Hawke. Hawke, who was Prime Minister between 1983 and 1991, helped to ...

University of Queensland academics have voted against the proposed curriculum for the Ramsay Centre’s revised Western civilisation degree. The move by UQ’s Board of Studies of Humanities and Social Scientists (HASS) at a meeting on Monday followed an earlier vote ...

After the dust settled from the Coalition’s upset win on the weekend, conversation quickly turned to how inaccurate the country’s major opinion polls had been. Throughout the election campaign Labor consistently led the Coalition 51:49; at the time Morrison took ...

Comments scrawled manually? Face-to-face dialogue? Or digital recordings? In a new Monash University study, thousands of Australian university students have voted digital as their preferred feedback mode. The study asked over 4,500 students from two universities to rate the level ...

UQ PUTS TRUST IN GILLESPIE The University of Queensland Business School has partnered with professional services firm KPMG Australia to establish a new chair in organisational trust, Professor Nicole Gillespie. A leading international scholar in the field, Gillespie will work ...