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International Education
The pushback against overseas students
International education is facing an uncertain future. In unprecedented ways, study destination nations around the globe are addressing the community…
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Industry & Research
An empire of scraps: the university research model
The way university research is measured and rewarded needs to change. Helen Razer has called these times an Age of…
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Leadership, now that’s a good idea
Higher education management seems to have moved away from the basic idea of helping students successfully complete their courses. I…
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Been there done that… and it did not really work
Twenty years ago when Campus Review was started, I had just returned to the tertiary sector in New Zealand after…
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End of the line
Columnist Richard Hil takes a look at what can happen if academics are pushed too far by endless change and…
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When adjustment is the only way forward
These days, an ever-important concept in the lexicon of the Prime Minister is the term “structural adjustment”. She often alludes…
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A group of our own
How do Australia’s universities experience the changes that are sweeping through the higher education sector? Differently, no doubt. Despite a…
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Challenges then and now
When I joined the University of Wollongong in 1990 from UTS, there was a great sense of optimism about the…
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Blurring the public – private debate
It’s not an easy time for universities. What continuing level of funding will Canberra provide for increased domestic student enrolments?…
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Towards policy coherence
Twenty years is a long time in higher education, although it is eerie how many of the issues remain largely…
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Evans says sector will adapt
The higher education landscape in Australia has altered dramatically since the first issue of Campus Review hit the stands in…
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Mixed marriages a merger of equals
The world of education is a funny place. It remains one of the last bastions of the struggle between the…
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Letter to the Editor
Academics – and particularly historians – must have stifled a laugh when they read Fred Hilmer’s prescription for a “brave…
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Compliance and implementation pivotal
As the embryonic Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) takes form, the five standards domains – Provider, Qualifications, Teaching…
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Tongue-tied by language
One of the exciting and challenging ways in which New Zealand and Australia has changed over the past 50 or…
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Surge of energy turns the lights on at last
Here in New Zealand it has been the between-semester break for education institutions, not that educators get a break…
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Wisdom makes good journalists
Ethics and its essential twin subject epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, are at the heart of good journalism writes Edward…
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