The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Fact Check unit has returned with the help of RMIT University, to make sure that the facts that public figures cite are not ‘alternative’ but plain old facts.

In Australian universities, student engagement in university decision-making is patchy.

That’s how the University of Technology Sydney’s professor Sally Varnham describes it, and that’s what she hopes to change after her report to the federal Department of Education is published.

Online private tutoring company, YourTutor, has expanded to the UK, beginning with a trial at the University of East London (UEL).

The Australian National University aims to “reflect society in all its diversity” and sidle up closer to business under a new strategic plan announced by vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt.

Mining engineer bachelor degree graduate full-time employment rates declined to 76.3 per cent in 2015, according to statistics from Graduate Careers Australia.

These are the lowest employment numbers, for an industry characterised by peaks and troughs, since 1982.

The University of Melbourne and Monash University have received multimillion dollar grants from a US government intelligence agency to conduct research aimed at improving human reasoning.

Professor Steve Clarke from Charles Sturt University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences is a philosopher specialising in issues related to conscientious objection.

He recently co-authored a paper on the obligations of parents who object on religious, moral or philosophical reasons to vaccinating their children.

Campus Review spoke with professor Clarke about those obligations and other issues relating to conscientious objection.

Martin Riordan, chief executive of TAFE Directors Australia, says that declining apprenticeship numbers are an issue for the federal government, especially since former prime minister Tony Abbott cut $2 billion from apprenticeships and traineeships while he was in power.

Riordan also calls on the federal government to include the VET sector into its innovation agenda.

The Mitchell Institute’s Peter Noonan has warned that VET needs to stop being conflated with apprenticeships as it could cause over-investment in declining industries.

While the travel ban imposed on seven Muslim majority countries imposed by US President Donald Trump has been overturned by a federal court decision, and that decision has been upheld against an appeal by the White House, there remains the real possibility that Trump will find a way reinstate his executive order.