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 ...

The time has come for international education to do some “future casting”. The international education community needs to stop obsessing about the downturn and start focusing on ways to get past it, peak groups say. The executive director of the ...

The federal government has hosed down plans for a national training guarantee, even though the Victorian prototype appears to have led to increased participation. The federal government has gone cold on its plan to introduce a national student entitlement scheme ...

New web portal will make it easy for employers to find work-ready graduates Experience in the workplace for students will be easier to arrange with the establishment of a website linking tertiary institutions and employers. The national Work Integrated Learning ...

The impact of a first-in-family graduate is not linear but multi-directional writes Stuart MiddletonThe impact of a first-in-family graduate is not linear but multi-directional Excuse me if what I write seems emotional – it’s graduation week and we have all ...

Responding to the need for qualified radiographers and sonographers in regional Queensland, Central Queensland University opened new $4 million medical and applied sciences laboratories at its Mackay campus last week. Equipped with state-of-the-art digital imaging equipment, the laboratories replicate a ...

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 ...

The sector has welcomed UK higher education consultant Alison Johns and hopes she can help maintain the learning and teaching momentum inspired by the ALTC Student learning will be front and centre for UK higher education executive Alison Johns as ...

University researchers have uncovered what happened in the world’s oceans during a previous greenhouse period. The results don’t look good for our near future. Two university researchers have uncovered disturbing new data about the vulnerability of the world’s oceans to ...

Carr reminds the sector that research allocations are negotiable, in response to mounting concerns about ERA. Federal budget allocations to higher education have triggered more controversy about the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) program. University of Western Australia business ...