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Having collected a couple of green stars in primary school, Joseph Gora understands the importance of peer recognition. When I was a snotty-nosed little upstart at primary school in the heady 60s, our assignments were graded by less-than-diligent teachers with ...

Indian student visa requests decline Fewer Indians are applying to study in Australia, immigration officials have admitted, in more worrying signs for the nation’s $15 billion international education industry. Department of Immigration official Peter Vardos told a Senate committee hearing ...

In a sign of confidence in the enduring health of the international student market, private higher education provider the International College of Management, Sydney this month introduced seven new degrees. With a ratio of 55 per cent domestic students to ...

Picking Nobel laureates each year is notoriously difficult. And for those who fancy putting a bob each way, Thomson Reuters has released its list of 2009 Citation Laureates - researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honors. Each year, ...

Economists are finding new, unusual and often weighty fields in which to ply their trade, writes Jeremy Gilling. Economics is emerging from its ghetto as the dismal science to apply its methods in all sorts of quirky, surprising ways to ...

The federal government has knocked back most of the recommendations from last year’s House of Representatives inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. The inquiry was commissioned by innovation minister Kim Carr in April last year, ...

Scott Bowman has a big job ahead of him. And he hasn’t been slow in getting to the task of change, writes Julie Hare. Scott Bowman is an optimist. Just a couple of weeks before taking up a five-year appointment ...

New dean of science for UNSW Professor Merlin Crossley has been appointed dean of science at UNSW. Crossley is currently professor of molecular genetics at the University of Sydney. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and following a post-doctoral period ...

Even with its endowment funds in freefall, Sydney University is looking to invest in the future, writes Ben Powerf measures to pare spending by $30 million this financial year after being hit by investment losses in 2008. The measures include ...

Sudhir Venkatesh was a first-year PhD student in sociology, when he decided to take his research on life in the housing projects of Chicago to another level. Over the course of a decade, Venkatesh embedded himself in the lives of ...