The University of Tasmania has released the findings of a review into complaints about the workplace under Professor Peter Rathjen’s leadership. UTAS commissioned barrister Maree Norton to explore the 11 complaints it received – three of which related directly to ...
More »Prioritising staff, expecting to lose thousands of students: Professor Rufus Black outlines UTAS’s immediate future
The University of Tasmania’s vice-chancellor Professor Rufus Black said in the face of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic he would prioritise keeping staff, despite expecting to lose thousands of students both this year and next. Instead, UTAS intends on staying afloat ...
More »UTAS hit hard, SCU closes campuses as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across university sector
[An earlier version of this story incorrectly mentioned the University of the Sunshine Coast instead of Southern Cross University. Campus Review apologises for the error.] Australia’s university sector is continuing to be severely affected by the effects of COVID-19, with ...
More »Higher education’s response to megafire series 2020 – Part 3 – Land management practices
In part three of our podcast series on the megafires that brought destruction to Australia this summer, Campus Review spoke to Professor David Bowman from the University of Tasmania, a world authority in land management practices. This episode focuses on the ...
More »‘Small but significant’ number of international students have a gambling problem
With most universities' summer breaks here, many international students will be hitting the beach – and the casino. That is, if a University of Tasmania report is to go by. A survey of almost 1,400 UTAS students revealed that while domestic students gambled ...
More »Gaming or gambling? Often, they coalesce
Legendary: Game of Heroes is a free "intense and strategic puzzle role-playing game," its developer, N3twork, provides. "Build a team of legendary heroes, go on quests and defeat monsters. Your Legendary adventure begins today!" Although aimed at players aged 12 ...
More »Pan-continental project seeks to break the Antarctic ice
As I spoke to University of Tasmania researcher, associate professor Elizabeth Leane, I could hear sighing gusts of wind in the background. "I'm looking directly at an ice breaker," she loudly voiced over the gale. By that she meant the Aurora Australis, a red, 95-metre behemoth ...
More »UQ’s Clyde-Smith heads to UTAS
Dr Jodi Clyde-Smith has been appointed executive director (research operations) at the University of Tasmania. Clyde-Smith has worked in research strategy, management and other roles at the University of Queensland and the UK universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Sheffield. She ...
More »Marwick joins Menzies
Professor Tom Marwick has been welcomed by the University of Tasmania as the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania’s new director. Marwick has an outstanding record in both medical research and research leadership in Australia and internationally, and has a strong interest ...
More »Being TEQSA Ready: Mapping helps provide the evidence
One university has outlined its strategic response to making sure their learning and teaching standards stay high. By Jonathan Holmes, Susan Jones and Brian Yates. The previous two articles in this series considered how learning and teaching networks were assisting ...
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