Monthly Archives: February 2009
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More »20 new campuses needed to fulfil Bradley’s 40% target: Birrell
At least 20 new university campuses will have to be built in outer suburban areas to accommodate the 284,000 additional students anticipated students to swamp the sector in the wake of the Bradley review. In her review of higher education ...
More »Peace Scholarships victim of efficiency measures
The chair of IDP Education Australia Professor Ian Young has written to all Australian Universities advising them that its successful Peace Scholarship program has been terminated. Since it was established in 2004, more than 300 students from 13 countries came ...
More »Wriggle room: where Cutler and Bradley intersect
The Cutler and Bradley reports have been designed to answer different questions. But they raise some questions about each other, writes John Ross. The Bradley and Cutler reviews were the two big ticket items in higher education last year, attracting ...
More »Going for growth
Education provider Navitas says it is yet to feel any effects from the global financial crisis and it could even benefit from an increase in demand for higher education during tough economic times. The company, which provides university programs globally ...
More »Teething problems in Tasmania’s new poly-system
Tasmania’s new-look VET and senior school system is in chaos, according to the state branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU), with staff shortages, confused reporting lines and people teaching the wrong subjects. But the system’s CEOs say these are ...
More »Applications up, as the work-wary seek refuge
Australia may have reached the end of a decade-long trend of school leavers leaning towards jobs instead of education and training, according to preliminary 2009 undergraduate application data released this month by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations ...
More »Part time research students
Full-time research students take longer to complete their degrees than their part-time peers, despite assumptions to the contrary. And despite their evident commitment, large numbers of part-time research students feel effectively “invisible” to university administrators.re kept up to date with ...
More »National briefs
Sector saddened by losses The higher education sector was saddened last week with news of the death of former AVCC CEO John Mullarvey. Tributes poured in from many who had worked with him over the years, among them Group of ...
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