From July, Australia’s universities will be looking for a supplier for the Australian Access Federation service which will promote researcher mobility and interuniversity collaboration. For researchers the decision can’t come soon enough, with many eager for the secure access to ...
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VET briefs
Melbourne college accused of offering grades for cash A Melbourne training college has been accused of being involved in a cash-for-upgrades scam, allegedly taking bribes from foreign students to upgrade their marks. An investigation by The Age has also uncovered ...
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Strictly speaking - 'adaptogen'hips, and married a leading figure in Osama bin Laden’s inner sanctum. In The Mother of Mohammed, Sally Neighbour discovers a world of converts and true believers. This unique and confronting account from inside the jihad helps ...
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Engineering better teachers
A shared passion for reinvigorating engineering education will help drive Professor Ian Cameron and Associate Professor Roger Hadgraft as they take up their roles as Australian Learning and Teaching Council discipline scholars in engineering and technology. The two will not ...
More »Rendez-vous pour les Aussie engineers
Engineering students from Queensland and France will exchange campuses for part of their study, and emerge with dual qualifications. It’s a fairly common arrangement in many disciplines, but breaks new ground for engineering. UQ’s Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information ...
More »The Pollyanna principle
Does the higher education budget live up to the hype, asks John Ross. Reduce expectations, then over-deliver. It’s a good business strategy. And it’s good budget strategy too, if you happen to be in government. For the second year running, ...
More »Research funding up, but make sure you collaborate
The federal government will replace the Institutional Grants Scheme, establish a new “hubs and spokes” funding program and move towards covering universities’ indirect research costs, in a major revamp of university research funding. The reforms will shift the emphasis to ...
More »No place for TAFE in student-centred higher ed?
TAFEs and private higher education providers will be excluded from the government’s new demand-driven higher education funding system, budget documents suggest. The papers indicate that the “new system for the 21st century”, which is supposed to let students choose where ...
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