Sector reduced to sleuthing because of COAG failure education advocates argue International education advocates have strongly criticised the government for failing to release a promised strategy for problems plaguing foreign students in Australia. They say the Council of Australian Governments ...
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Cost and utility drive search for new computing systems
Despite some risks universities are moving further into the cloud writes Beverley Head Cloud computing is the third most significant issue exercising the minds of Australian university Chief Information Officers (CIO) in 2010, lagging only funding and governance issues. That ...
More »TEQSA gathers pace
Consultations with key stakeholders in the proposed new national regulator will start soon Government consultations with key stakeholders on the detailed legislation establishing the new national regulatory and quality agency for higher education will start within the next few weeks. ...
More »Protest from the fringe wins award
Thesis explores international students’ influence on Australian policy Dr Eugene Sebastian from Monash University has won an International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) award for his PhD thesis which investigated international students’ contribution and influence on the development of Australia’s ...
More »Bond VC calls for clarity on student mobility
Professor Robert Stable announces his farewell to Bond The Federal Government needs to be a lot clearer on its intention to encourage student mobility Bond University vice-chancellor and president Professor Robert Stable says. He was talking to Campus Review following ...
More »New professor to boost QUT education research
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has taken a strategic step to ensure that influential education research will continue well beyond the retirement of baby boomer academics, with the appointment of Professor Barbara Comber to help mentor early and middle-career academics. ...
More »TAFEs find client needs are changing
Students and industry best judges of sector success, John Mitchell discovers Attend any large VET conference nowadays and it is likely that key speakers will argue that if Australia is to be upskilled quickly then the public provider, TAFE, which ...
More »Time for renewal
Change is on the way in vocational education writes Robin Ryan. Those of us who have been predicting and proposing new ways of managing the sector’s institutional structures and policy settings are being rewarded with signs of significant change. A ...
More »RMIT welcomes new professor of pharmacy
Professor Peter J. Little, AM, B Pharm has been appointed Professor of Pharmacy and Foundation Head, discipline of pharmacy, and group leader, diabetes complications group, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Bundoora. He will take up the position on the ...
More »UNE science teacher wins Churchill fellowship
Nicci Hilton, an award-winning science teacher, has won a Churchill Fellowship that will take her to the United States to pursue her vision of making classroom science more engaging for students. Hilton, who graduated as a science teacher from the ...
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