At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class – though he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university.

Fast forward, Tepper is a 24-year-old Queensland University of Technology graduate who wants more kids to stay in school.

So he developed an idea to enter in Uniting’s IdeasGen competition and it’s relatively simple: connect school students who are thinking of dropping out with mentors who are in the early-to-mid-twenties age bracket and who once wanted to quit school themselves.

Shiva Kumar from LinkedIn ANZ reveals the Top 10 resume buzzwords for 2017 and gives advice as to what to include and omit from job applications.

The Australian private tutoring industry has now been ‘Ubered’ by a pair of software engineers operating out of Brisbane.

Restoring the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships program and including sub-degree loans in the demand driven system are two of the priorities for the Innovative Research Universities group’s new chair, professor Colin Stirling.

Professor Linda Shields from Charles Sturt University is a specialist in nursing ethics. She has co-written a book on the role of nurses in Nazi Germany’s forced euthanasia programs and recently authored an opinion paper on the role of nurses in legal executions.

Campus Review spoke to Professor Shields about the role of nurses in end of life situations, also including abortions and voluntary euthanasia.

The University of Melbourne has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality on its campuses by 2030, achieve zero net emissions from electricity usage by 2021 and develop a framework to guide its $1.9 billion investment fund.

For entrepreneurs Bevis Cheng and Jeanette Cheah, failure is much more interesting than success.

Researchers have found that the youngest children in classrooms are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD as their older peers, raising concerns that kids are being medicated with amphetamine-based drugs for age-related immaturity.

In a bumper first episode of Talking Eds for 2017, the team behind Campus Review, Education Review and Early Learning Review look at how adopted babies are recalling language skills, epigenetic twin variations, international student destinations, non-completion rates at Australian universities and the importance of mentoring students from high school to university.

The University of Sydney hosted a week of mentoring programs in mid-January 2017 for Indigenous and Torres Strait high school students. Students in Year 9 and 10 are part of the Wingara Mura program while those in Year 11 and 12 participate in Bunga Barrabugu. Campus Review sat down with two Year 12 students completing the program to find out more. In the first interview I speak with Nunka-Wa-Ru Pearce from Dubbo College Senior Campus. Following this, I chat with Lachlan (Lockie) Eveston from Marist College in Canberra.