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HASS PhD students have a history of non-completion, dissatisfaction and alienation. But things are changing, says Denise Cuthbert.   In late 2007, the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) convened a teleconference involving leading players in doctoral education ...

Award-winning architect Alec Tzannes has been appointed as the new dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales. Founder of the high profile Sydney architectural practice Tzannes Associates, Tzannes has won numerous national ...

Professor Andrew Parkin has been appointed deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at Flinders University. Parkin has been acting in the role of DVC for 18 months. He has been at Flinders University since 1993, during which time he has held several positions ...

Associate Professor Kate Crawford has been awarded the Max Crawford Medal, which is presented biennially by the Australian Academy of the Humanities to an Australian-based, early-career humanities scholar. The award recognises high-quality academic research that contributes to a deeper understanding ...

Curtin University of Technology has appointed Lynette Farrell as the new director of the Curtin Vocational Training and Education Centre (VTEC) in Kalgoorlie. Prior to joining Curtin, Farrell was general manager of organisational services at Swan TAFE and has also ...

Victoria’s VET reform is based on questionable assumptions and offers as many risks as opportunities, according to the head of the state’s second-largest TAFE institute. Virginia Simmons, CEO of Chisholm Institute of TAFE, told a Canberra conference last month that ...

Australia has the third-best university system in the world, after the US and UK. Or at least that is the claim of Quacquerelli Symonds, the company that runs the THE-QS international rankings of universities. After five years rating individual universities, ...

Australia’s education system ranks ninth in the world according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009, released earlier this month by the World Economic Forum. The report found Australia’s education system was well suited to meet the needs of a competitive ...

A total of 225 staff will be made redundant at Victoria University over the next six months in what has been described as “the largest proportionate redundancy program in Australian higher education history”. Savings of $27 million will be made ...

Bureaucratic obstacles, real and imagined, are keeping international graduates from jobs in an economy supposedly riddled with skill shortages. The anomaly is threatening the viability of Australia’s biggest export service industry while squandering a skilled labour pool of around half ...