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The purpose of education is to prepare students for the next step – the world of employment, writes Stuart Middleton. The California state budget is something of an issue. I recently met with faculty at a prestigious university, and the ...

Do VET practitioners need professional development in e-learning, asks John Mitchell. E-learning is a contentious arena. One reason is that technology is central to e-learning and technology keeps changing, challenging decision-makers to decide which technologies are the most appropriate. Another ...

Panasonic has thrown its weight and $700,000 behind a new chair to funded environmental research The notion that researchers and business are involved in international research and development was a key plank of the Dr Terry Cutler’s review of the ...

Putting elite science undergraduates into a research-intensive university environment doesn’t mean they automatically learn more about science., such as critical thinking. “The things that they don’t say they learn are tackling a problem, formulating a problem, developing a hypothesis and ...

Diplomas and advanced diplomas will be the collateral damage of the federal government’s push to increase demand for higher education, according to the Group of Eight.ted that in the most likely future demand scenario, Australia would achieve only 28,000 more ...

Universities need smaller class sizes and they’re going to need lots of new staff. Aren’t they? By John Ross. Higher education experts have questioned some of the assumptions and conclusions from the Group of Eight’s latest forecasts of student demand. ...

CQU has thrown its hat in the ring to become the country’s sixth – and Queensland’s first – dual sector university. By Julie Hare. Central Queensland University has taken the first steps towards reinventing itself as a dual sector university. ...

UTS confirmed world-renowned architect Frank Gehry would design their new business school - his only Australian building. By Julie Hare. Sydney is a city of icons and it’s about to get another one. The University of Technology, Sydney last week ...

It’s been more than 20 years between drinks, but John Dawkins will command a key post in the new higher education revolution. Earlier this month the country’s education and training ministers decided to temporarily retain the services of the doomed ...

Is increasing the qualifications of the entire population either realistic or necessary, asks Michelle Circelli. A typical response from government to the demands for economic growth is to set targets for increasing the population’s skill level. The Council of Australian ...