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Undulating brick and angled sheets of glass to feature in the facades. By Annette Blackwell. UTS today (December 16) unveiled the schematic design for a new $150 million building designed by world-renowned and at times controversial architect Frank Gehry. The ...

Second lock-up under way to tease out complex issues raised by universities DEEWR is holding a second lock-up on the proposed TEQSA legislation today, Monday, December 13. The stakeholders, including representatives from universities, the NTEU and student representatives, are meeting ...

Researchers ask Gillard for $140 million to seal US deal. Five Australian research universities will ask the federal government for $140 million to build a observatory that could help discover one of science’s holy grails. Led by the University of ...

Universities must decide whether to open up their learning management systems Deakin University is migrating its learning management system from Blackboard to a Canadian system called Desire2Learn, with plans to go live in 2011. To some extent the decision bucks ...

Maybe academics are like a small number of other hard-wired vocations, such as the priesthood. In the absurdist drama Waiting For Godot two men wait for someone called Godot, but it turns out they admit they wouldn’t know him if ...

A pathways project in slow motion A day might be a long time in politics but a year is a mere flick of the eyelid in education systems where change proceed at a pace that makes glaciers look like films ...

It is recommended TEQSA exercise rigor, transparency and open judgment. A review of higher education state regulators, released by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), includes recommendations to pave the way for the agency’s replacement — the Tertiary Education Quality ...

People in more than 100 countries have downloaded La Trobe podcasts La Trobe University passed a milestone this week, recording that more than one million people downloaded from iTunes U free educational podcasts created by the institution. Of the million ...

Boredom and stress the main reason those who quit give for leaving university Fewer first-year undergraduates are thinking about dropping out, but those who do cite boredom and personal stress as the main reasons. That’s one of the main findings ...

Sections of ALP regard universities as no more than glorified skills factories, writes Paul Rodan In the recent Victorian election campaign, the parlous condition of the state’s leading export industry, international education, received virtually no attention from political parties or ...