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The many challenges of globalisation and cross-border cooperation for higher education will be explored in a UNESCO-sponsored conference in Kula Lumpur in October.f London Sir Graeme Davies, secretary-general of the International Association of Universities Eva Egron-Polak, and vice-chancellor of Open ...

Gloom boom for the brain06, the social networking service Twitter has grown to the point where it is the most used behind the well-established MySpace and Facebook. It differs from these in its immediacy – input is essentially a short ...

The next generation of professional librarians are enrolled in information management degrees. They need to be given the explosion in digital information, reports Jeremy Gilling. The information revolution has transformed the world of libraries. Books are still borrowed, though in ...

VET marketisation is back on the agenda, with the government’s key skills advisory body proposing a “managed market reform approach” to VET funding. And Skills Australia wants a single national regulatory body covering both VET and higher education. The proposals ...

The Committee for Melbourne has called on the Victorian government to extend public transport concession fares to overseas students, describing the issue as the “number one factor alienating our international students”. The committee, an independent network of business and institutional ...

The decision by the Federal Court in Melbourne to allow a student to offset education-related expenses against her Centrelink youth allowance for tax purposes could open the door for thousands of student assistance recipients nationwide, according to an ABC report. The court ...

New legislation to control vexatious legal proceedings will prove particularly beneficial to universities, according to a leading law firm. NSW is the latest state to introduce provisions against vexatious litigation, following similar moves in Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern ...

Monash University academic Bob Birrell has pointed to dramatic increases in the number of overseas students enrolling in cooking, and the number who subsequently obtain permanent residence, as fresh evidence that the migration industry has “hijacked” a substantial part of ...

The VET professional will more than ever need to be autonomous, independent, critical, appreciative of the broader social and civic goals of education and training while also being a teacher who is intellectually gymnastic, writes Ros Brennan Kemmis. Discussions around ...