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The National Union of Students (NUS) has asked education minister Julia Gillard to investigate the charges Australian universities levy for undergraduate course materials, after Queensland University of Technology (QUT) was found to have breached the Higher Education Provider Guidelines. The ...

Youth minister Kate Ellis tried to defuse the polarising issue of compulsory unionism in her response to VSU, by drawing a line between student representation and student services. Ellis stressed that her changes wouldn’t be a return to compulsory student ...

Holidays are good for the soul. If you can disconnect from work, peak hour traffic, feeding the cat and the gas bottle running out halfway through the first BBQ of spring, holidays are an opportunity for reflection, reading the paper ...

Higher education struggled to make it to the fore as a core topic in the US election campaign. With the war in Iraq and the collapse of the economy, that may not be surprising. But over the course of two ...

Professor Ian Chubb enjoins government to stay on track and deliver compacts with teeth.   When the Jiao Tong rankings first came out five years ago, there were seven Chinese universities in the top 500. This year there are 18. ...

The Education Investment Fund (EIF) and other major federal infrastructure funding schemes face a dark future, after Treasurer Wayne Swan last week cast strong doubts on whether they’d receive the extra allocations foreshadowed in this year’s budget. Releasing the Mid-Year ...

Corporate social responsibility and ethics are under the spotlight again, and business schools are helping with the re-examination of practices. Jeremy Gilling reports. The corporate social responsibility message has been out there for quite a while, but it may have ...

The adult and community education sector plays a significant role in the social inclusion agenda, says Kaye Bowman.   Governments tell us social inclusion is important. The best future for Australia will rest on its ability to develop the capacities ...

Training in NSW would suffer if the state’s TAFE structure was broken up into autonomous institutions, according to the former federal shadow education minister and current chair of the TAFE Commission Board, Michael Lee. Lee, a rising Labor star before ...

Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behaviour, such as Sex in the City, compared with those who have tamer viewing tastes. Teens who watched the ...