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Its focus might be local, but its reach is international. A new journal is striving to take full advantage of new technologies, hoping to engage a non-academic audience of community-engaged practitioners who have otherwise been largely excluded from the world ...

Rededicating a foundation stone in 1974 at the University of Canberra (then Canberra CAE), ex-Prime Minister John Gorton was surprised to find American student and activist Marcia McReynolds hiding under a blanket. With a sweatshirt emblazoned with the words ‘Stone ...

Regrets, he’s had a few. Perhaps the biggest was the failure of his landmark reforms to produce the institutional diversity that the Bradley review is now pursuing, the former federal education minister and treasurer, John Dawkins, revealed during a rare ...

Ian Chubb, agent provocateur of the higher education system, used his presentation at the National Press Club last Thursday to once again call for research funding to be concentrated in the country’s top universities and to stop spreading it too ...

Aussies are great adventurers. Ask anyone. No matter which corner of the earth you find yourself, you are likely to cross paths with an Aussie backpacker. The converse is true when it comes to students’ choice of university. It’s common ...

Contrary to popular wisdom, new research has revealed a surprisingly high proportion of early school leavers achieve positive learning and labour market outcomes. Furthermore, many of the groups most likely to leave school early have made considerable progress in recent ...

How can a dual-sector university access its genius and gems?   When Elizabeth Harman took up the position of vice-chancellor of Victoria University five years ago, she found a large organisation that was creative but lacking in some other ways. ...

Ever thought you were turning into your parents? Now it seems, it’s true. Research from the University of New England has found there is a 40 per cent chance it could be happening to you. Psychologist John Malouff and a ...

James Cook University appointed Professor Andrew Vann as its new senior deputy vice-chancellor and Professor Chris Cocklin (pictured) as deputy vice-chancellor (research and innovation).Cocklin was previously pro vice-chancellor of JCU’s Faculty of Science, Engineering and IT. He joined the university ...