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A new interactive online program to teach students the basics in consumer rights and responsibilities aims to meet a strong demand for such a course from business. By Antonia Maiolo. Australia’s competition watchdog has launched a MOOC-style course to help ...

The emerging polytechnic model straddles the interface of vocational training and higher education, and also addresses an anomaly in the area of support for student fees. By Meeuwis Boelen. The year 2013 marks the rise of the polytechnic with both ...

Extra numbers of graduates brought in to meet future shortages are struggling to find jobs. By Louis White. Australia may be gearing up for a nursing shortage in 2025, but in the interim nursing graduates around the country are struggling ...

Global rankings of Australian universities are already under threat as government cuts cast a long shadow and pressure rises for alternative sources of funding.   By Louis White. Professor Ed Byrne has some bad news for the university sector. The vice-chancellor ...

The number of Australians with mental health problems is enormous, but education in this complex area has tended to be neglected – a situation that universities are now being urged to address in their training of nursing students.  By Antonia ...

A COAG report paints a worrying picture of increasing marginalisation of disadvantaged youth, prompting calls for redoubled efforts to apply proven strategies to get young people into study and jobs. By Antonia Maiolo. More than one in four young people ...

Prime minister Tony Abbott has launched the new Australia-Indonesia Centre, aimed at strengthening ties between Australia and its important neighbour. Timed to coincide with a visit to Canberra by vice-president of Indonesia Dr Boediono and selected ministers, the launch follows ...

A government review of the higher education funding scheme that began in 2012 will also consider access for students from low socio-economic backgrounds and the quality of graduates – but could lead to higher fees. By Dallas Bastian. The new minister ...

Our public universities were the guinea pigs in the introduction of the streamlined visa for international students. Now it’s to be offered more widely. By Phil Honeywood. "Based on the institutional pain that was inflicted on the public universities when ...

The number of Australians with mental health problems is enormous, but as a specialty area of nursing it has tended to be neglected – a situation that universities are being urged to address in their training of nursing students. By ...