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A web 2.0 learning program is taking off in Australian libraries, and may help secure their future in a rapidly changing world, reports Jeremy Gilling. Fears that the internet could sound the death knell for libraries are being countered by ...

Education has “a positive and significant effect” on labour market experiences, new research has confirmed. Researchers from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at University of Melbourne, found a “significant intergenerational relationship between parents’ and children’s education ...

Monash University and the University of Melbourne will each contribute $5.5 million towards the construction of the largest collaborative library storage facility in Australia. The $16 million library project will treble the storage capacity of the existing space of CAVAL ...

A national agency “with a presence in each state and territory” will take over regulation of vocational education and training (VET) and eventually higher education as well, under new recommendations from Skills Australia. But the jury’s still out on whether ...

$15m for Australia-Asia student exchange The Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong scholarship program has been extended for a further 10 years. The partnership between the Australian government and the Hong Kong-based company Cheung Kong Holdings will support international education exchange and ...

Charles Darwin University last week joined Innovative Research Universities group, bringing back up to seven the number of institutions under its umbrella. Last year, Macquarie University, an original member of the group which formed in 2003, withdrew from the group, ...

Online education will expand more than twice as quickly as any other industry in Australia over the next 12 months, according to a new report which predicts the country’s top 10 growth industries in 2009-10. Business information analysts IBISWorld say ...