Macquarie University has found it underpaid almost 3,000 casual academic staff by a combined $1.9m between 2017 and 2023. The announcement comes after an internal investigation between 2016 and 2022, initiated by the university itself, found another 1033 casual academics who ...

Universities across Australia are staring at challenging times ahead. Cost-of-living crisis, international student caps, growth in part-time students, rising costs – the list goes on. But, we’re not weathering the storm alone. Despite being on opposite sides of the world, ...

New research by Victoria University to ensure offside decisions are accurate and time-sensitive has proven effective as the first 2022 World Cup game kicks off.  After three years of research, the 2022 Qatar World Cup features new video technology that assists referees to rule on offsides.  The ...

Block Mode of Teaching (BMT) is a model of teaching where subjects are offered in shorter periods of time. In the traditional semester mode of teaching, four units are normally offered in a 12 week window. In the BMT usually ...

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 ...