The political history of Aboriginal Australians is being reappraised and rewritten through Victoria University’s Aboriginal History Archive (AHA). Containing thousands of digitised and rare photos, videos, campaign ephemera, press clippings and manuscripts, the collection covers the self-determination movement that swept ...

Hi, Wade Zaglas here, education editor for Campus Review. Welcome to our fourth weekly roundup. You can either read this summary or listen to the podcast below. Our most popular story by far this week was the University of Alabama’s ...

In looking at ways to comprehensively restructure its first year student program, Victoria University chose to abandon the "industrial model of education that is very hard to change". Professor Marcia Devlin, VU's senior deputy vice-chancellor, was presenting at this week's ...

Rebranding can be tricky. Many university heads feel it’s a necessary next step to attract new students and refine the institution’s messaging, but they run the risk of irking the current student body. Western Sydney University saw this first hand ...

Parents routinely roll their eyes any time a school announces a student-free professional learning day for its teachers. Many parents consider these days an inconvenience and struggle to see their purpose. High quality, continuous professional learning (as opposed to one-off, snapshot professional ...

University leaders are being asked to champion innovation in a world being reshaped by technology, in what the World Economic Forum describes as the fourth industrial revolution. These advances of technology are rapidly changing the expectations of students, and what ...

Most university students simply need to pass all their subjects to graduate. Teaching students, however, have to score in the top 30 per cent of the adult population in literacy and numeracy, in addition to passing their regular exams, to earn their ...

Education experts have been left questioning the value of the ATAR, after new figures showed just one in four students were entering university undergraduate courses based on their year 12 results. The latest paper by Mitchell Institute at Victoria University ...

How universities can resolve student retention woes following fee increases. Student acquisition and retention rates are arguably the biggest challenges for Australian universities. While several factors contribute to this, a key concern is the cost of studying in Australia. This ...

  Hundreds more jobs are set to go; NTEU says some will be involuntary. By Dallas Bastian. Forced retrenchments will be part of the staff slashes at Victoria University, the National Tertiary and Education Union says. The university has announced ...