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Universities must agree to a minimum pay rise of 16 per cent over three years if the National Tertiary Education Union is to sign any future collective agreements. The NTEU, which made the decision over the weekend, is using the ...

Government claims that OECD data showed zero growth in expenditure on tertiary education under the Howard government are wrong. Equally, claims by the Opposition that OECD data failed to account for 75 per cent of VET spending under Howard is ...

Universities understand the importance of international education to their operations – and the risks to their bottom line if anything goes wrong. But while they have planning frameworks to manage these risks the plans aren’t necessarily effective, according to an ...

Just what is the impact of rankings systems on different national higher education systems is the question posed by a US think tank. Australia, along with Canada, Germany and Japan, are case studies in a paper released by the US-based ...

Assertive Indian Students mark a cultural turning point, writes Michael Furtado. Australia’s experience of Indian students has for far too long been mediated by cultural stereotypes. The cultural hallmark of students from the subcontinent was to be studious, aloof, and ...

Any new centre of excellence will benefit from the combined wisdom of its predecessors after the Australian Research Council released a consultation paper last week. The paper canvases a range of issues which will become guidelines for new centres of ...

While Victorian police say attacks on Indian students are opportunistic crimes by hoodlums on the hunt for laptops and MP3s, commissioner Simon Overlander concedes there’s been a racist element to some of the incidents. But it’s far from clear whether ...

Laureates replace Federation Fellowships The federal government has replaced Federation Fellowships with the new Australian Laureate Fellowships Scheme. The laureates are for top Australian and international researchers whose work focuses on areas of national economic, environmental, cultural and social benefit ...

Most Australians believe cultural diversity is good for the nation but many worry about the impacts on social cohesion, according to a long-term study by researchers from four states. The latest results, outlined last week at a public lecture at ...

RMIT is considering what legal action to take after it became embroiled in a scam which saw dozens of Singaporean students paying up to $16,000 each for degrees purporting to be from the university. Brooke’s Business School was offering one-year ...