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CQ University has appointed Alastair Dawson as deputy vice-chancellor (university services). Dawson is currently CEO of Rockhampton Regional Council. An alumnus of CQUniversity, Dawson will direct and manage the university’s infrastructure and administrative operations. Dawson holds a BA in communication ...

German higher education is provincial towns is thriving, writes Christina Slade. Although one can imagine it as the perfect setting for a John le Carré novel, Bielefeld is not really a small town: it has a population of around 330,000, ...

Scientists have for some time been accused of failing to speak effectively to the general public about scientific research and its importance. nd other projects in areas including astronomy, space, marine science, clean energy and nanotechnology. They are similarly unaware ...

The age structure of the science academic workforce is in better shape than the academic workforce as a whole, but new research reveals a lot of young scientists seem disinterested in pursuing an academic career. A paper in the journal ...

Quality journalism at Campus Review receives national recognition. Campus Review journalist John Ross was presented with his award for 2010 Higher Education Journalist of the Year by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the National Press Club last week. CR dominated ...

The My University website is not unique – the Germans have been doing it for years. The federal government is considering emulating a German website that allows potential university students to compare universities based on subject, institution or city in ...

A program designed to get regional and research-intensive universities working together is hitby a lack of definition. The federal government needs first to define what a regional university is and what is meant by less research-intensive before the nuts and ...

Skills Australia’s national workforce development strategy finds that the tertiary education teaching workforce needs its own development strategy. Julia Gillard will put the vocational education and training sector front and centre of the next stage of the education revolution if ...

VET courses do more for unemployed people with disabilities than for other unemployed people, according to a new study. People who have disabilities do much worse in the labour market than people who don’t. That’s one of the unsurprising conclusions ...

Box Hill TAFE is a seasoned provider of higher education courses, but AUQA says it needs to alter its focus. Box Hill TAFE entered the higher education market in 2002, one of the first providers to respond to the Victorian ...