It’s around a cup of coffee at Victoria University that Dr Yanni Bouras and his team decided to develop a way to transform takeaway coffee cups into concrete, with the aim of reducing landfill waste.  Bouras, a lecturer in built ...

A new report from the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University shows international students are flocking to Canada, the US and the UK in record numbers, while Australia’s international student population has dropped by more than 50 per cent from pre-pandemic ...

Vice-chancellor and president of Victoria University, Professor Adam Shoemaker, is on the cusp of marking his first year at the helm of the university.  And as he approached this milestone, he spoke to Campus Review about the university’s vertical campus, ...

A series of recent announcements about Australia’s borders reopening mean there is hope of an end to the crisis in our international education sector. But there is still a long way to go. Over 145,000 international student visa holders are ...

Unrecyclable takeaway coffee cups could find a second life as concrete paths and Besser blocks, new research has found. An experimental study by Victoria University’s (VU) College of Engineering and Science tested a range of new materials that replace the ...

CampusReview · Lifelong learning, microcredentials, block models and teaching only universities - Podcast Amid a precarious world where old jobs are disappearing and new ones are emerging, the idea of lifelong learning has morphed into something more of a must ...

New modelling by education policy think tank Mitchell Institute at Victoria University shows a 50 per cent drop in Australia’s international student numbers by mid-2021 if the country’s borders remain closed. The 50 per cent drop, which equates to roughly ...

Australia’s response to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is consistent with international approaches that mandate physical distancing and self-isolation. However, evidence from prior pandemics shows that periods of self-isolation or quarantine are associated with emotions such as anger, frustration and distress. Common ...

A Victoria University report presented at a United Nations-associated meeting this week underscored the economic importance of investing in chronic diseases research in preparation for future pandemics. The COVID-19 pandemic, which according to worldometer has now infected over 30 million ...

Modelling by Victoria University has predicted that if work-from-home policies (WFH) continue after COVID-19 is controlled or eliminated, the country’s urban sprawl will continue, job flight to our biggest cities will increase, and there will be more economic disparity between ...