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Understanding his students helped Raymond Lister understand his teaching. By Linda Belardi. For five years, Dr. Raymond Lister was consistently surprised by the high rate of failure in his first year computer programming course. Between a quarter and half of ...

Undergraduates starting their studies next year look likely to face the lowest levels of amenities and income support available to university students in well over a decade. Two key pieces of government legislation – the reintroduced Student Services and Amenities ...

Australia’s universities spend more on scholarships for commencing international postgraduate research students than they spend on agents’ commissions for all international students, new benchmarking data reveals. Higher education researcher Alan Olsen told this month’s Australian International Education Conference that universities ...

Clinical training places will need to be established in private hospitals and neighbourhood medical centres to cope with a surge in medical graduate numbers, according to the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand. Medical Deans president Professor Jim Angus ...

International higher education students are almost a third less likely than their domestic counterparts to find work when they graduate, with employers shunning them in the tightened labour market. According to the most recent Australian Graduate Survey, which attracted around ...

TAFEs are being forced to raise bigger chunks of their revenue from employers and international students, as government funding fails to keep pace with inflation. The NCVER ‘Financial information 2008’ report, released last month, shows that operating revenue for Australia’s ...

Griffith, UniSA rank high in alternative MBA list Two Australian business schools – Griffith at 27 and the University of South Australia at 78 – are included in the world top 100 in the biennial 2009-10 ‘Beyond grey pinstripes’ alternative ...

China’s graduate glut grows An report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in September said earnings of graduates were now at par and even lower than those of migrant labourers, reports Asia Times. Over 6 million graduates entered ...

Incentive payments aren’t the main driver of traineeships, and many employers participate even when subsidies aren’t available because they’re convinced of the benefits, according to a new NCVER report. The report, ‘High-quality traineeships: identifying what works’, says research findings don’t ...

NSW TAFE teachers threaten strike action NSW TAFE teachers are staging wildcat strikes, defying an Industrial Relations Commission judgment on work conditions in return for pay rises. Several strikes took place last week at TAFE campuses in Sydney and Wollongong. ...