The government today elevated skills training to be a key economic driver by promising that all Australians would be entitled to government-funded training if the states and territories sign up to a new federal government plan. And Prime Minister Julie ...

Stories from Campus Review’s coverage of the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference in Canberra, March 7 to 9, 2012. Click on headline to view full story.

In anticipation of the biggest expansion of higher education in the nation’s history, Universities Australia’s (UA) fourth annual conference was dominated by discussion about the new demand-driven system.  The impact of the reform on universities and students cannot yet be ...

Europe is investing heavily in research, innovation and design, with the express purpose of attracting the best scientists in the world to its shores, the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference heard in Canberra. Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science ...

International education has done more to forge ties with Asia than any other sector and can lead the nation’s preparation for the coming “Asian century”, Senator Chris Evans has told a Universities Australia conference. The Minister for Tertiary Education told ...

Despite major changes in communications technology, independent quality journalism remains vital for democracy and the functioning of civil society and maintenance of an informed public sphere, those attending the launch of a graduate school of journalism in Sydney have been ...

The tertiary regulator’s power to discipline universities might be undermined if a challenge to the Commonwealth’s authority is upheld in the High Court.  The outcomes of several cases currently before the High Court could challenge the legal viability of the ...

Comparing public attitudes towards international students with those directed at boat people, the Council of International Students Australia (CISA) has suggested Australia isn’t ready to handle more foreign students.  In a well-received presentation, CISA president Arfa Noor told delegates at ...

Prestige will remain the primary driver of student movement in the new Australian demand-driven system, a higher education conference has heard. And that prestige will still be determined by a university’s research outcomes, rather than its teaching and learning quality. ...

A United Nations representative has dismissed a claim by ANU professor Des Ball that a major factor in the growth of opium cultivation in Burma has been ceasefire deals struck between the military government and armed ethnic groups. The regional ...