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Winning funding from the third round of the EIF is pretty simple: meet the criteria, says EIF chair Philip Clark. "It’s also wise to focus on quality, accentuate the economic and job creation implications, consider a joint project with a ...

<The introduction of ERA is likely to push higher education delivery of hospitality courses even further into the private sector, writes Barry O’Mahony. Once hailed as the most reputable hospitality degree-granting institution in the UK, the Scottish Hotel School is ...

The proportion of 15 to 19 year-old Australians who aren’t involved in employment, education or training is high by international standards, according to a new study for the Australian Social Inclusion Board. But the rate of disengaged 20 to 24 ...

Changes to senior management portfolios within AEI are worrying and have the potential to further lower the profile of international education in Canberra. The changes have alarmed figures in the international education sector who say far from being buried in ...

Australia-India discussions continue The India external affairs minister, Shashi Tharoor, visited Australia last week, claiming his government had no interest in allowing the crisis to “infect” relations between the countries. He said the crisis would die down only when attacks ...

Australia is producing quality PhD candidates across its 39 universities, no matter the perceived research strengths of individual institutions. Furthermore, arguments that research strength equates with excellence in research training are simplistic and narrow. Recent comments by ANU vice-chancellor Professor ...

The federal government’s infrastructure funding juggernaut rolled on last week with the launch of two more rounds of the Education Infrastructure Fund (EIF). Education minister Julia Gillard and innovation minister Kim Carr invited higher education institutions, research agencies and vocational ...

E-publishing has moved well beyond its first, halting steps as little more than an electronic page-turner. The new “born digital” generation of e-publishing is offering new possibilities for academic publishing. Both Melbourne University Press and Monash University ePress have recently ...

Ignore, adapt or fight? This is one of the questions university and TAFE administrators will need to confront if they want to clear some of the roadblocks between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education, according to a high-level ...

Doing away with copyright for academic publications would be “socially desirable” – so long as universities canned their expensive journal subscriptions and used the money to cover the costs of publication, according to Harvard Law School professor of law and ...