The federal government has started implementing Bruce Baird’s recommendations – but too late for yet another international college. The federal government has introduced the first batch of Baird recommendations into Parliament and started consulting on more changes, in its latest ...

Diplomas and advanced diplomas will be the collateral damage of the federal government’s push to increase demand for higher education, according to the Group of Eight.ted that in the most likely future demand scenario, Australia would achieve only 28,000 more ...

Putting elite science undergraduates into a research-intensive university environment doesn’t mean they automatically learn more about science., such as critical thinking. “The things that they don’t say they learn are tackling a problem, formulating a problem, developing a hypothesis and ...

Panasonic has thrown its weight and $700,000 behind a new chair to funded environmental research The notion that researchers and business are involved in international research and development was a key plank of the Dr Terry Cutler’s review of the ...

The unstoppable truth is that on-campus education will increasingly become obsolete as technology transforms the teaching and learning experience, writes James G Barber. In learning and teaching circles, the most common view of the relationship between education and IT is ...

Stronger registration conditions for RTOs, which kick in this week, echo the evolving changes in the regulation of international training. The “stronger gateway” for international training providers is being replicated in the domestic training sector, with tougher registration conditions and ...

Universities need smaller class sizes and they’re going to need lots of new staff. Aren’t they? By John Ross. Higher education experts have questioned some of the assumptions and conclusions from the Group of Eight’s latest forecasts of student demand. ...

CQU has thrown its hat in the ring to become the country’s sixth – and Queensland’s first – dual sector university. By Julie Hare. Central Queensland University has taken the first steps towards reinventing itself as a dual sector university. ...

UTS confirmed world-renowned architect Frank Gehry would design their new business school - his only Australian building. By Julie Hare. Sydney is a city of icons and it’s about to get another one. The University of Technology, Sydney last week ...

It’s been more than 20 years between drinks, but John Dawkins will command a key post in the new higher education revolution. Earlier this month the country’s education and training ministers decided to temporarily retain the services of the doomed ...