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Can disengaged apprentices be helped to return to a trade and succeed, asks John Mitchell. The skills shortage in the period before the global financial crisis was so severe that employers were willing to recruit people whom, in normal times, ...

O’Neil joins the Griffith Asia Institutetor of the Flinders International Asia Pacific Institute and associate dean for research in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Between 1999 and 2000, O’Neil worked as a strategic analyst with Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organisation as ...

While student visa application numbers are declining overall, they’re rising among would-be postgraduates. Student visa applications might be plummeting but applications from would-be postgraduates are rising, according to the latest figures from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC). The ...

Consumer protection laws can protect international students where others have failed, writes Philip H Clarke. The welfare of international students has properly received considerable attention in recent months and been the subject of reports at state and federal levels. However, ...

With booming industry demand for graduates, skilled teachers are badly needed in both engineering and IT. A new program aims to translate academics’ research and supervision skills into teaching skills. Jeremy Gilling reports. Sylvia Edwards admits, when pressed, that teaching ...

Architecture schools feature prominently among the short-listed entries for the Vienna architecture biennale Australian universities have made a big impact in the competition to determine which designs will feature in the Australian pavilion at the 2010 Venice architecture biennale. And ...

The ELICOS sector has been hit by the latest big college collapse, the Australian branch of a multinational giant, after its bosses took a commercial decision to shut up shop. The late January collapse of yet another private college chain ...

Senate passage of the ESOS Amendment Bill seemed assured after the Opposition gave it the tick last year, and the hurry-up last week. But now it’s back before the Lower House, with changes the government says it can’t accept. The ...

Two new reports have contradictory findings on job satisfaction levels for academics. Either Australian academics are among the least satisfied in the world or they have consistently high levels of job satisfaction – much higher than their public sector and ...

Preparing new teachers for the leadership roles they will inhabit – probably sooner than expected – could be a good start towards the professionalisation of university teachers, writes Judy Nagy. The recent discussion about the graduate certificate of higher education ...