Universities should review their PhD courses to ensure students gain professional skills and develop a network to help them land a job after they graduate, according to a new study. Research from Monash University has found a growing number of ...

The economic strain of COVID-19 is forcing 45 per cent of Australia’s best and brightest future researchers to consider disengaging from their PhD studies. A new study from The University of Sydney, titled 'The Quiet Crisis of PhDs and COVID-19: ...

Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our third weekly roundup. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. The most popular story by far this week was also one of the ...

Around half of Australian PhD students want to work in business and employers are keen to hire them – so why are they still facing hurdles to landing such a job? Released by Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and CSIRO Data61, a new ...

The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group wants universities to have more say in how they spend their funding dollars. They say that universities only get to fully determine how a fifth of their endowment is spent. Raising the issue yesterday at the House of Representatives Inquiry ...

A PhD is fine for arts and science lecturers but law students need to be taught by experienced practitioners, as well as academics, writes Lee Stuesser. The great American judge Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “The life of the law has ...