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The federal government still plans to release $600 million from the Education Investment Fund, despite reducing current allocations by $200 million. The federal government still plans to allocate a further $600 million from the Education Investment Fund’s round 3 and ...

Peak bodies weren’t consulted about the decision to transfer responsibility for marketing international education to Austrade. Australian Education International’s marketing and promotion functions will be transferred to the Australian Trade Commission from July next year, in a decision that has ...

Go8 to support University of PNG The Group of Eight has announced a new program of academic collaboration with the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. Go8 chair Professor Alan Robson said the Go8-UPNG project will engage academics ...

The ALTC has had a $2 million funding boost to drive work on academic standards. Academic standards are a hot topic and they got even hotter last week with the news that the Australian Learning and Teaching Council will now ...

There are many good reasons why governments should concentrate public investment in elite universities, writes Michael Gallagher. Today we might define a research university in its ideal type as a community of intelligent people, new and experienced, together searching for ...

Tom Clark bemoans the amount of wasted time and effort in the research grants system. The Australian Research Council recently announced its major rounds of grants results for 2009. Once again, the clear winner is unpaid overtime. The Discovery program ...

Professor Ian Costa-Packet*, vice-chancellor of Wemakealot University, writes an open letter to the union. It is with great sadness, and considerable concern, that I view recent developments at some of Australia’s universities. The recent wave of strikes, orchestrated by the ...

Freedom from government interference is crucial to building world-class universities, an international gathering has heard. Phil Baty reports from Shanghai Government interference in the running of universities is damaging efforts to build world-class institutions, an international conference heard last week. ...

The Productivity Places Program has infiltrated state VET systems, fundamentally changing the way they’re funded and administered. The Productivity Places Program (PPP) is the “Trojan horse” of VET funding, according to the Australian Education Union, which says the $2.1 billion ...