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How do you make a toad’s genome exciting? How do you convince researchers to increase their media footprint? And how – the eternal question – do you inspire people to send more dollars your way? These are the predicaments that the ...

If you’re an Australian man, you’re better placed than any other male group in the world to reach a ripe old age. This is according to new research by ANU. Pulling data from 15 countries with high-life expectancies across Europe, ...

"It cannot be overstated how vital it is that courses are structured, and promoted with ‘career-readiness’ as a primary focus." This is one of the main takeaways from a new domestic prospective student survey conducted by QS Enrolment Solutions, a company that specialises ...

This story can also be listened to as a podcast. Subscribe to Campus Review on iTunes, Castbox or wherever good podcasts are found. There are close to 50,000 children living in out-of-home care in Australia. This experience will often represent a ...

A new paper has added to a growing body of research suggesting trigger warnings have little to no benefit for those they’re meant to help. Published as a pre-print version online, the study found that trigger warnings could even have ...

Where trigger and content warnings are becoming increasingly institutionalised in the United States, they've been slow to catch hold in Australia (despite what conservative opinion pieces may suggest). Monash was the first university to introduce a policy in 2017, and ...

The Grattan Institute is to end its Higher Education Program, coinciding with the departure of the program’s director Andrew Norton in September. The program has been around as long as Grattan has, launching eight years ago, with Norton its leader ...

International students are being deceived, scammed and financially exploited by unscrupulous Sydney landlords, a new study by UNSW has found. The 66-page No Place Like Home report, released by UNSW Sydney’s Human Rights Clinic, paints a troubling picture of overseas ...

Robust regulatory requirements are essential to research, particularly in the field of health and medicine. The approvals procedure acts as a check against misconduct and risk, minimising harm to the participants and organisations involved. Yet in Australia, many researchers believe ...

The hurly-burly issue of free speech on campus has been particularly boisterous among the headlines these past few weeks, as universities cautiously deliberate whether to adopt the non-statutory “model code” enshrining this right, as put forward in a recommendation by ...