News:

Coalition’s $624 million PPP double-dip more

Uni benefits improve with time more

Banking on growth in demand for Islamic finance courses more

Overseas medical students “wasted” more

NSW leads the pack with more of the same more

Stoush over Victorian TAFE boards more

Tampering with targets more

Three quarters of VET course enrolments not completed more

Policy coordination critical: international chiefs more

Offshore refuge? more

Sector lobbies independents: don’t wreck equity program more

Comment:

Putting pen to iPad more

What’s in a completion rate? more

International:

The time for Indonesia more

Humanities

19 Jul 10 edition

A modern morality play

The artist as academic

Artist-academics face difficult choices in reconciling their diverse roles and fulfilling the university’s research expectations, reports Jeremy Gilling. more

Building a sense of belonging

Attrition in later years is a serious and under-researched area – and the factors at play are rather different from those driving first-year attrition. Jeremy Gilling reports. more

10 May 10 edition

Different models for different contexts

Do employers value a specialist BA over a generalist one? A spin-off research project aims to find out. more

Bonfire of the humanities? Not by a long shot

The arts and humanities are holding up surprisingly well in the era of market ascendancy, reports Jeremy Gilling. more

30 Mar 10 edition

Can we at least agree on the question?

Sociology is a discipline beset by tensions as it struggles to define itself. Jeremy Gilling reports. more

Two perspectives on a long and bitter dispute

Two new books explore the intractable divisions that engulfed the economics faculty at Sydney University for much of the past 40 years. Jeremy Gilling reports. more