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A new research program will drive collaboration. Julie Hare reports. Sixteen universities have been deemed eligible for the federal government’s collaborative research networks funding under the program’s draft guidelines. The naming of the universities has resolved earlier confusion in the ...

The people who guide research students also need guidance, argues a research education expert. PhD supervisors need to keep up to date with developments in doctoral education in the same way they stay abreast of developments in other aspects of ...

Students have been found to be 40 per cent less empathic than they were just a decade or two ago. Today's college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and 1990s, a University of Michigan study ...

Batchelor Institute gets a reprieve with $8.9 million and new ties with CDU. Julie Hare reports. After months of uncertainty about its future, the federal government and Charles Darwin University last week came to the rescue of the financially strapped ...

As a government committee assesses the implications of the changing international education market, the latest figures suggest we may be overly reliant on just one market. The council of education and training ministers has ordered a snap assessment of “the ...

Online intro Shifting sands in federal government policy are scaring the horses, according to a Sydney-based vice-chancellor. By John Ross A wind change in the Canberra policy environment has made universities nervous, with possible ramifications for the Bradley participation target ...

Advances in technology and changing community attitudes are finally bringing university education within reach of severely dyslexic people. Jeremy Gilling reports. Jim Bond is fortunate. With both parents working in non-academic jobs at Macquarie University, he aspired to a university ...

Stuart Middleton goes back to school and learns that while the concept of lifelong learning might be simple, the actuality is a different story all together. It is a good thing that when five year olds start at school, they ...

Historians are claiming Australia’s place in the world, write Robert Pascoe and Phillip Deery. The draft new national curriculum in history is a step in the right direction. For too long Australian history has been regarded as boring and pallid ...

Are most VET practitioners capable of increasing the use of e-learning, asks John Mitchell. As part of its year-long investigation into the VET workforce, the Productivity Commission has released an issues paper. And one of the questions raised in the ...