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External teaching methods are helping disadvantaged students, writes Charles Webb. Charles Darwin University has recently experienced a very rapid increase in students studying off campus, with more than 60 per cent of the current delivery in external mode. We are ...

Internet studies provides plenty of scope for researchers to stake new ground, writes Beverley Head. Internet studies represent a great way for young academics to carve out a stellar reputation. This is the considered opinion of Dr Vicki Nash, director ...

Red alert Bookshelf: Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia Reframing Darwin: Evolution and art in Australia explores the impact of the Darwinian revolution on Australian arts and sciences. Beginning with the voyage of HMS Beagle and concluding with contemporary ...

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Attracting more women into engineering, reducing attrition and building linkages with VET are just some of the challenges facing the discipline, writes Peter Dowd. Engineering, science and technology provide the foundation for the industries that are vital to Australia’s economic ...

Australian universities struggle to supply sufficient engineers to keep the economy growing to its potential. Major nation-building infrastructure projects are hampered by a shortage of engineering skills. Right? Well, perhaps the problem isn’t as severe as it’s widely portrayed, if ...

Any move towards establishing an agreed set of standards for undergraduate study that is set at discipline level would by necessity be overly prescriptive. In turn, this would have negative impact on institutional diversity while massively increasing the administrative burden ...

Universities Australia has hit back at claims by a Monash researcher that international education earns only half the government-reported figure of $15 billion. Dr Glenn Withers, CEO of Universities Universities Australia, said Dr Bob Birrell’s claims that export earnings from ...