The Latest Breaking News from Swinburne

Five vice-chancellors in Victoria paid more than $1m in 2024, prompting claims of ‘largesse’

Union says universities blaming budget deficits for job cuts while pushing executive salaries ‘into the stratosphere’

The Guardian - AU · May 13, 2025

Backlash grows over Swinburne’s move to evict kindergarten from land donated by state

Families and politicians from all sides unite in push to protect Windsor community children’s centre as university seeks to sell site

The Guardian - AU · Jan 15, 2025

Lures and violent threats: old school cheating still rampant at Australian universities, even as AI rises

Integrity experts say sites offering cheating services to students are hard to trace, and some are run by criminals willing to make threats of violence

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31, 2024

Tell Us What You’re Looking For In A Uni You Could Score $3k As A Nifty Lil’ Treat

Picking a uni can be a bit of a nerve-racking experience. Between deciding what course you’re going to do, calculating whether you’ve got the marks (or experience) to get in, and even tossing up whether you need to move away from home, there are a bunch of factors that influence…

Pedestrian.tv · Aug 17, 2022

Mars City: 3 Red Planet resources could forge a critical building material

When the first humans reach Mars, they’ll probably live in habitats that were there ahead of time or in habitats made from their landers.

Inverse · Aug 13, 2022

7 People You’ll Meet At Uni Open Day Including That Mature-Age Student You Mistake For Staff

Open day is when you realise you're putty in any arty alum's cool, ring-filled hands. You'll leave with every last one of their pamphlets.

Pedestrian.tv · Jul 12, 2022

Things I Wish I’d Learnt In High School Bc Who Needs Algebra In This Economy?

I’ve come to realise that my public school education didn’t prep me nearly as much as I would’ve liked. So you don’t make the same mistakes as moi, here’s a list of things I wish I learnt more of in high school. 

Pedestrian.tv · May 23, 2022

Grading students may be as easy as ABC, but evidence shows better ways to improve learning

Swinburne University recently announced it will remove grades from core aspects of its design degree. Instead it will focus on learning design processes and feedback throughout the semester.

The Conversation · Mar 31, 2022

Death threats, ghost researchers and sock puppets: Inside the weird, wild world of dodgy academic research

An anonymous whistleblower says they have uncovered problems in hundreds of published scientific papers dating back a decade, involving multiple researchers working at Australian universities.

ABC News · Jan 30, 2022