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A tax on nearly $10bn a year of foreign student fees is being actively considered by experts drawing up Labor’s once-in-a-generation overhaul of the nation’s universities, sparking a war between the vice-chancellors who gain and lose from the plan. The ...

University of Wollongong deputy vice-chancellor Professor Leo Farrell has been announced as the new head of Victoria's La Trobe University. Professor Farrell, an internationally recognised war scholar, said he looked forward to realising a "bold and exciting" future for the ...

Cash-strapped universities have been instructed to find new ways to make money to offset tumbling enrolments, as more school leavers choose work over study. Soaring living costs, especially rent, food and electricity, are forcing more Australian students to defer or ...

Caps on international student numbers are being canvassed as part of the milestone Australian Universities Accord, as Accord panel chairwoman Mary O’Kane reveals the opportunity to teach more overseas students offshore is “definitely on the table”. Announced last year by ...

Former Monash vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner AC has been appointed as Victoria's next Governor. On Monday, Premier Daniel Andrews announced that Professor Gardner would start her new role at the beginning of August after she concludes her role with Monash University. ...

Deakin University students have the widest vocabulary than those of any other Australian university, according to a new analysis. A recent study from WordTips analysed university newspapers across Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States to find the number of ...

In 2012 at a San Francisco meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, a group of editors and publishers signed a declaration to change the way Journal Impact Factors were being used to inappropriately depict the comparative quality of ...

New research by an Australian university has added more weight to the growing push for a four-day working week. Health researchers from the University of South Australia say that a recent study suggests that a three day weekend can see marked improvements on sleep ...

Generative artificial intelligence is a growing branch of AI which helps with generating new and original content. ChatGPT, the word-of-mouth generative AI these days, is a language model created by Open AI that uses algorithms to produce human-like answers to ...

No reader of Campus Review, or indeed anyone working in higher education, can have missed the anxiety about the fresh potential for plagiarism created by the recently-released software ChatGPT. Of course there’s now a new word for this type of ...