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The Australian higher education system is not in crisis, but boy has it got problems a new report finds. Higher education staff and students in Australia are substantially less engaged with each other than their American counterparts and a survey ...

A former director of campus services at the University of New England has told the Independent Commission Against Corruption that believed he was “doing good deals for the university” while allegedly accepting meals, alcohol, sports tickets and money intended to ...

Average nursing clinical placement hours have declined over time as universities try to ease placement and resourcing problems, according to a report released by Health Workforce Australia. While many nursing schools exceeded the required minimum by substantial amounts in the ...

Fresh scrutiny of the University of Queensland by the state Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) could finally reveal the details of a nepotism scandal that claimed UQ’s top two executives late last year. The CMC has announced an independent examination ...

Universities exert tremendous clout buying goods and services, including a reported $200 million a year spent on travel alone sector-wide. But while there are optimistic signs that some universities have recognised the significance of procurement, or the purchasing function, there ...

A James Cook University researcher has helped unearth a 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site in South Africa, the oldest nesting site for dinosaurs ever found. The discovery, of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus, at an excavation site in South Africa, has revealed significant ...

Overwhelmed by the sheer number of undergraduates fresh from high school, mature age students tend to exist in the background of Australian universities. But that is changing. What began as loose meetings among a few older students at Edith Cowan University ...

The distance between Perth and Toowoomba is vast but the economies of the two cities are not dissimilar, says Professor Jan Thomas. Thomas has just moved across the country, forsaking her job as deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Notre ...

Alarmed at proposed cutbacks at a high-performing University of Sydney science centre, former deputy director Guy Cox appeals for a re-think. In 1975 I joined the then Electron Microscope Unit (now the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis) at the ...

A stellar international academic career was not enough to convince the Australian science and medical community of the worth of now prominent brain surgeon Charlie Teo. Teo, whose Australia Day 2012 address was reported widely for his concern about a growing ...