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Professor Stephen Parker will lead the University of Canberra for the next five years under a new contract signed last week. Parker’s term began on 1 March 2007 and was due to expire in 2012. The new contract will see ...

Social scientist Professor Daniela Stehlik has joined Charles Darwin University as director of the School for Social and Policy Research. Stehlik was previously the foundation chair in stronger communities and director of the Research Centre for Stronger Communities at Curtin ...

Professor Wayne McKenna has been appointed to the new role of deputy vice-chancellor (academic and research) at the University of Western Sydney. McKenna will lead the new Division of Academic and Research which integrates all academic-related functions including academic development, ...

There are mixed signs from Australia’s first large-scale move into demand-driven tertiary education. Diploma and advanced diploma enrolments have slumped in Victorian TAFEs, as the settings for the state’s VET reforms clash with its goals of increasing tertiary education participation ...

Franchises may be a good option for TAFEs wanting to deliver degrees. Franchising arrangements may be the most promising collaboration model for TAFEs and universities, given that TAFEs are being excluded from the demand-driven funding system for higher education, according ...

Collective compact negotiations would defeat the purpose, academics argue. Academics have given a lukewarm response to a recommendation that the Victorian government become involved in university compact negotiations “to ensure that the needs of the state are considered”. The expert ...

Austrade and AEI are targeting the upper end of the international education market by sending Australian researchers to top-end European universities. Austrade may be grappling with the challenge of maintaining entry-level enrolments from key markets like India and China as ...

NMIT may scrap some of its diplomas next year after an unprecedented marketing effort failed to prevent a 32 per cent slump in enrolments. Deliberate over-enrolling, an enhanced web presence and the biggest advertising and marketing campaign in its history ...

Austrade will be well up to speed on international education when it takes the promotional baton from Australian Education International. Austrade will have plenty of experience under its belt when it assumes responsibilities for promoting and marketing international education in ...

Australia should work to attract foreign PhDs, but it should also accept that its strengths in international education lie at the lower end of the higher education spectrum. Australia should chase foreign enrolments in high-level degrees, but not at the ...