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Journal debates The nature of academic publishing is changing rapidly and young humanities academics are struggling to find their place, writes Toby Miller. I just spent a couple of days with (predominantly) junior faculty in Salt Lake City, the Mormonic ...

College’s collapse leaves 61 stranded Another private training college in Victoria has collapsed, leaving scores of Australian students in limbo and raising fears that problems in international education have spread to colleges that teach local students, reports The Age. The College ...

Two centuries of honours degrees to disappear Britain’s 200-year-old system of awarding honours degrees as firsts, upper and lower seconds, and thirds will be superseded by a higher education achievement report (HEAR) by 2011. A recent report by vice-chancellors called ...

The sunnier the weather, the sunnier the human spirit. And the happier people are, the less likely they are to take risky investment decisions, a Deakin University researcher has found. Using data from Germany and the Netherlands, Dr Cahit Guven, ...

a Polgar, women’s Olympiad, Thessaloniki, 1988. Zsuzsanna, the eldest of Hungary’s remarkable Polgar sisters, was women’s world champion from 1996 to 1999, although she was perhaps fortunate that her brilliant sister Judit – the youngest of the three – never ...

An economist finds strong positive link between indigenous cultural attachment and educational achievement, writes Jeremy Gilling. Dr Michael Dockery, a research fellow with Curtin University’s Centre for Labour Market Research, says some anthropologists are likely to be “aghast” that an ...

Do C grade students make the best CEOs, asks Robert Wood. I first saw the quote “C students make the best CEOs” on the t-shirt of a Kellogg MBA student during the recruiting period while I was a visiting professor. ...

US private education giant Kaplan has its sights set on establishing a teaching-only university in Adelaide, following the signing of an MOU with the University of Adelaide last week. The campus would enrol 5000 campus-based international and domestic students, as ...

TAFEs were the fastest growing higher education providers last year and universities ramped up their vocational offerings, in yet another sign that the distinctions are blurring between higher education and VET. The latest DEEWR ‘Selected higher education statistics’ report, a ...

The NSW and Victorian training ministers next week face the unenviable task of explaining to international students why their respective governments don’t offer transport concessions, in a room full of education ministers from states and territories that do. The three ...