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Risky business

Taking for granted government funding brings with it a risk of taking for granted the international student market, says Tony Adams.   It is still a while away before we have to make plans for this year’s Australian International Education ...

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Spending to save

A new report gives a damning analysis of IT spending in universities, but the sector says it is spending up to make cost-saving measures elsewhere. Beverley Head reports.   Technology analyst IDC has delivered a damning broadside regarding the education ...

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Supervision changes with the times

The understanding of what postgraduate supervision involves has moved beyond describing the qualities of a good supervisor to conceptualising and theorising the nature of their work. In 2007, Professor Chris Halse, director of the Centre for Educational Research at UWS ...

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VET market reform off the boil

Market reforms to the vocational education and training system have been put on the backburner following last week’s meeting of the Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education (MCVTE). And in yet another sign of an impending marriage of higher ...

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Australia: the lightweight heavy-hitter

The US has recovered from a post-9/11 lull in its international higher education industry, but pound for pound, Australia still punches way harder than its international education competitors. A report released last week by the Institute of International Education (IIE) ...

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Westie chick finds pulse, opens medical school

When second-year University of Western Sydney medical student Kyle Sheldrick took the blood pressure of the acting Prime Minister and minister for just about everything and pronounced the result “right on the money”, Julia Gillard looked relieved. “I’m just pleased ...

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Female-led renaissance at Deakin

Dr Maree Gladwin changed jobs earlier this year. After nine years in a senior role in equity and diversity at the University of Melbourne, she switched to another senior position developing mid-career researchers at Deakin University. No big deal. What ...

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Vibrant and valued

Peter Quiddington’s ‘Come together: an Asian Bologna?’ (CR, 18.11.08) makes interesting points about an overarching Asia-Pacific regime that can form the basis of a Bologna process, involving harmonisation of education standards and qualifications in the Asia-Pacific and the issue of ...

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VSU took light out of university life

The universities of Bologna and Paris vie for the title of the oldest European university and Oxford University is the oldest in the English-speaking world. It has no precise foundation date, but teaching existed there in 1096 and developed apace ...

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