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Both CAPA and the NUS are being headed by students hailing from the University of Melbourne. I am what I eat. You are what I feed you,” Tammi Jonas’s bio on Twitter asserts. When the new president of the Council ...

Improved regulation and performance measures are largely welcome, but the spectre of increased government interference is a likely consequence. Regulation and government intervention are likely to increase with the advent of a new national regulator, compacts and performance funding, despite ...

Work on academic standards is going ahead in leaps and bounds with the first standards ready to be reviewed by the end of the year. Accounting looks like being the first cab off the rank to have minimum standards set ...

The development of the occupational hit-list for the skilled migration program reveals as much about Skills Australia as it does about what’s likely to be on the list. In choosing Skills Australia to develop the new skilled occupation list (SOL) ...

The government wants to see universities collaborate to boost low-SES enrolments and a new alliance is one of the first off the block The federal government’s carrot-based approach to improving collaboration between institutions to increase participation of low-SES students resulted ...

The government wants workers to work longer and reskilling and re-education are going to be keys to achieving that goal. The Prime Minister wants us all to work harder and longer – for the sake of the country, of course. ...

Deferral rates in regional areas are closely related to participation – and something needs to be done about it, writes Andrew Harvey. A recent Victorian inquiry argued that rising deferral rates are the most notable trend in higher education participation ...

Current considerations about regional provision need to have much more substance and potential for impact, writes David Battersby. On the eve of last Christmas, Senator Kim Carr, as the acting education minister, released the latest in a series of discussion ...

What’s so “silly” about having a teaching qualification for higher education, asks Yoni Ryan. In a recent edition of Campus Review (18.01.02)Kerri-Lee Harris dismissed the role of the graduate certificate in higher education as a measure or indicator of teaching ...

The income support proposals pass the policy test, writes John Ross. The ‘no losers’ question is a favourite trick with broadcast journalists these days. Can you guarantee that no Australian worker will be worse off because of your industrial relations ...