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Australian awards for university teachings year, 24 university teachers across Australia will receive awards for teaching excellence, with a further 12 awards for programs that enhance learning. The premier university teaching award, the $50,000 Prime Minister’s award for Australian university ...

No financial worries for top Chinese universities While western universities struggle with collapsing endowments, China’s top universities are stronger than ever. Hao Ping, China’s vice-minister of education, said that in 2007 the 34 Chinese universities identified as the frontrunners of ...

Is raising the school leaving age an important policy change, asks John Mitchell. Many people in the tertiary sector seem mesmerised by the recommendation in the Bradley review and supported by the federal government that the percentage of people with ...

New taskforce to plan workforce needs for resource projects The federal government has formed a ‘national resource sector employment taskforce’ to examine workforce needs for about 80 major resource projects anticipated over the next decade. The taskforce – which will ...

Industry bodies must not be sidelined from the efforts to resolve international education’s problems, writes Dennis Murray. Governments are nothing if not reactive. Not a day goes by without a new decision or initiative or overseas peacemaking visit announced by ...

Are student complaints an indication of underlying problems? Or are they the inevitable result of a user-pays/user-says system, asks Joseph Gora. “I have received a number of complaints from students saying that you have not been contactable in person or ...

We’re repeatedly told international education is vitally important to Australia’s economy and balance of payments. We know too that the two-way student exchanges enhance intercultural understanding, here and overseas. Now a new Universities Australia report suggests international education is deeply ...

Janaki Bahadur thinks Australia ought to have seen the warning signs earlier. India’s media hysteria over attacks on Indian students in Australia was just waiting to happen, she says. Bahadur, a journalist who divides her time between New Delhi and ...

When the Think: education group was founded, it set itself a lofty ambition: “to create a new category in Australian education – a credible alternative to universities and TAFE colleges”. That has earned praise for Think:’s “distinctive vision, mission and ...

The proportion of disengaged teenagers has risen sharply, reversing four years of steady improvement, with the global financial crisis wreaking havoc among some of Australia’s most vulnerable. The 2009 ‘How young people are faring’ report, from the Foundation for Young ...