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Innovation review chair Dr Terry Cutler’s report, ‘Venturous Australia’ contains much to please universities – but not their commercialisation specialists. Some have lamented that Cutler made no recommendation for an early stage technology development fund to replace Commercial Ready Plus, ...

Is a British Council equivalent appropriate for Australia, asks Michael Fay.   The International Education Association of Australia is calling for a new vision for international education and a British Council-style body to drive it (CR, 26.08.08). IEAA is seeking ...

Collaboration between doctors, nurses and allied health professionals is very much on the national agenda, but there’s a long way to go before it’s accepted as the norm. Jeremy Gilling reports. Imhotep, the first physician known today by name, lived ...

Geof Hawke argues that our approach to involving employers in education and training hasn’t made enough allowance for the wide variations among employers.   Once again attention is being drawn to the importance of establishing a means by which employers ...

Australia’s VET system is bogged down by a multiplicity of authorities which have passed their use-by dates, Skills Australia suggests in a discussion paper on future governance of the national VET system. The “extensive array of advisory and regulatory bodies ...

Why are TAFE providers offering more and more degree programs?   The issue of TAFE providers offering degrees gained national media attention recently with negative reactions to the decision by Holmesglen Institute in Victoria to offer a nursing degree. While ...

The average male corporate boss might not beat his chest, but a new report claims the evolutionary signs of managers marking out their territory are everywhere. Researchers revealed how everything from the pink shirt under their power suit to the ...

There comes a time when an institution has to play the role of early adopter and encourage change in student behaviour. In the case of ePortfolios, only one Australian university – QUT – has stepped into the breach, offering each ...

How universities can negotiate their way around Chinese-Australian cooperative education structures, by Katherine Polkinghorne.   Education in China is currently in a boom phase, with Chinese universities investing large amounts into the promotion of courses, research and development. Australian educational ...

At least five universities will pay management-initiated, non-union increases, ranging from 2.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent in 2009, while EBA negotiations across the sector stumble in a period of uncertainty in the lead-up to the Bradley review and ...