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Relaxing the eligibility rules for apprentices may just be enough to get the VET community on side with the Victorian government’s skills reforms. Apprentices will be exempted from Victoria’s controversial ‘up-skilling’ eligibility requirement for government-funded training places - for the ...

British universities may be forced to cull international student numbers. And if so, they’ll have to knock off the profitable ones, writes John Ross. About ten years ago I went to England with my Spanish girlfriend, who spoke little English ...

Higher education should have accepted the skills challenge rather than fight a rearguard action to protect its patch, writes Stuart Middleton. At last, I thought, one of the English-speaking education systems has got it right. The incoming government of Julia ...

Tenure is a risky business for universities argues Professor Raymond da Silva Rosa. Close to fifty years back, the president of a US university predicted "an end to the tenure principle" and, as a result of its abolition, "better teaching ...

Britain’s most prestigious prize in surgery – the Lister Medal – has been awarded to cochlear implant research pioneer, Professor Graeme Clark AC. He becomes only the third Australian to receive this honour in the medal’s 86-year history. Clark is ...

An internationally recognised anaesthetist has been appointed the inaugural Woolworths chair in Paediatric Anaesthesiology at The University of Western Australia. Professor Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg works in the UWA School of Medicine and Pharmacology and as a paediatric anaesthetist at Princess ...

Dr Andrew Stockley, a New Zealander currently based at Oxford University, has been appointed as Dean of Law at The University of Auckland. Since 2006 he has been the senior tutor of Brasenose College at Oxford, overseeing the academic staff ...

Learning to change has never been easy writes Annette Blackwell I am privileged to take on the role as editor of Campus Review in my new position as editor in chief of APN’s educational media. The publication is highly regarded ...

CQUniversity has appointed Professor Andy Bridges as the dean of Health and Human Services. Spending the past 20 years in the UK’s midland region, he has a psychology background and has worked as a researcher on projects investigating the applications ...

A leading expert in the development of new theories and models for construction project management, Professor Anil Sawhney joins the UTS School of Built Environment this semester. Formerly based in the USA, he was an associate professor at the Del ...