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Australia needs better research before it can put together a cogent response to the crisis in international education Strategies to deal with the crisis in international education are being developed in a research vacuum, according to two Melbourne experts on ...

Parental education is not a good proxy for measuring socioeconomic status, writes Trevor Gale. The long-awaited move to a new way of measuring the socioeconomic status of higher education students is gathering pace. Submissions in response to DEEWR’s recent discussion ...

Managing the demands of work-integrated intense higher education, by Stephen Billett. A growing concern for many universities is meeting the increasing demand to locate, organise and sustain their students’ workplace experiences for programs with work-integrated learning components. As one senior ...

There is very little difference between old performance measures and the new ones, writes Marcia Devlin. Except in one very important area. And so, round two of the national “debate” about teaching quality is on. The federal government teaching indicators ...

Victorian TAFEs want a stop to new private VET colleges, and more support when they rescue students from failed colleges. Victorian TAFEs have distanced themselves from the troubled private VET sector, calling for a moratorium on new providers and demanding ...

Who needs to pick up the baton regarding the professional development of the VET workforce, asks John Mitchell. The editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 January put the case for school teachers to be positioned at the centre ...

Nobel winner collects nation’s top citizens’ honour her weighty list of accolades and titles. Blackburn, who co-discovered the telomerase enzyme that boosts a cancer cell’s ability to divide, has been appointed a Companion (AC) of the Order of Australia. Blackburn ...

The UK’s new breed of higher education leaders are heading into a brave new world, writes Christina Slade. A couple of weeks ago, some of 18 budding leaders of higher education in the UK could be found building an igloo ...

Social media is throwing up challenges and opportunities for universities, write Beverly Head. When a pro-rape page established on Facebook by past and present University of Sydney students hit the headlines late last year, it threw into sharp relief the ...

Advancements in dental practice are posing educational challenges. Jeremy Gilling reports. Implant dentistry has transformed dental practice worldwide, says Nikos Mattheos. But the education system has a lot of catching up to do. While implant dentistry has been around for ...