As one rating agency announces its reputation ratings another is handing out stars writes Annette Blackwell It’s ranking season again. Over the past few weeks Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published a spate of rankings, some of which rankled academics. Not ...
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Grattan defends regional findings
Universities and governments are rejecting an analysis of investment outcomes for regional Australia, but that’s to be expected, says the Grattan Institute. The authors of a controversial report on the futility of spending billions of taxpayer dollars to boost regional ...
More »Sectors asunder
The boundaries are supposed to be blurring. But this year’s budget has prised VET further apart from higher education, and it’s part of a post-Bradley trend, writes John Ross Sydney Institute can trace its history back almost 180 years to ...
More »Reserve powers could set limits on unlimited supply
Universities shouldn’t feel threatened by the government’s reserve powers to limit student numbers. The federal government has reserved the right to cap its ‘uncapped’ higher education system, with the bill for the new demand-driven system giving the tertiary education minister ...
More »UNSW wakes Finn again
Seumas Phelan writes about the book that launched a thousand and more PhDs. There are some people who believe James Joyce’s masterpiece Finnegans Wake is the greatest literary work of the modern age. There are some who say it’s a ...
More »Radical surgery: CSU rethinks rural medical education
A bold proposal for a new medical school intended to help solve acute rural doctor shortages has met with strong objection from students, doctors and academics who say the existing system is in crisis. Annabel McGilvray reports. When Emeritus Professor ...
More »Leave balances add to financial pressure on NSW universities
A report from the NSW auditor-general shows that although leave balances are reducing in universities there is still a big backlog of accumulated long-service leave that could cause problems. Managing excessive annual and long service leave balances compounded by an ...
More »Kristjanson sets a course for dual sector university
We do not confuse quality with elitism, Swinburne’s new vice-chancellor tells Susan Woodward Professor Linda Kristjanson is more than aware of the challenges facing the Australian higher education sphere. There are domestic and international student cohorts to balance, future plans ...
More »Uni surplus slumps in Victoria
Victorian universities saw their surplus fall 5.6 per cent in 2010 but the state’s tertiary education sector is still in good shape. Cash flow among Victorian universities dropped 5.6 per cent in 2010, despite increased revenues from student fees and ...
More »Go8 launches research gateway
A new online database that links everyone from global businesses to the general public directly to Go8 researchers is an Australian first. The Group of Eight (Go8) last week launched an online searchable database that identifies and links directly to ...
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