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The creative arts, social sciences and humanities will help secure Australia’s future as a prosperous, innovative, compassionate and fair nation. Traditionally last in line to receive research funding and often looked at as the poor cousin to other disciplines, humanities ...

Teacher education should focus on the quality of experience, not quantity. Darragh O Keeffe reports. The idea of taking people straight from school, training them at university and then putting them back into school is not the best model for ...

Does the end of a four-month search mean a new research focus at the country’s highest ranking university? Annette Blackwell talks with Professor Ian Young The new vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, the country’s leading research university, has signaled ...

Susan Woodward explores the deepening Higher Ed ties between the two countries. One nation pulsates at the centre of the higher education universe, radiating a mammoth learning system that’s home to more than 17 million domestic and 670,000 international students. ...

Two years after an OECD report nailed Australia’s VET system for slow and cumbersome policy development, reform is still desperately needed writes Susan Woodward VET experts said Australia had not taken up many of the recommendations outlined in the 2008 ...

Students still divided on compulsory union fees as Govt bill stalls writes Susan Woodward The National Union of Students (NUS) is pessimistic about the fate of a controversial $250 student fee, saying it’s unlikely the new parliament will make the ...

Collaboration between schools and a university is leading to better teacher training. Darragh O Keeffe reports. A new university mentoring program is providing student teachers with a more realistic school-based experience, enabling them to develop peer relationships with teachers. The ...

Authors forecast growing numbers and tight budgets will create university 'tiers' writes John Morgan This is one of the forecasts made in a new book, Globalisation and Internationalization in Higher Education, edited by Felix Maringe, senior lecturer in education at the ...

A massive Spanish infrastructure company is preparing to move its research and development efforts offshore for the first time – to Adelaide – as part of a 2009 deal to build the city’s desalination plant.i>. “I don’t know whether this ...

Skills reform in Victoria still a work-in-progress writes David Battersby In his piece on Victoria exempts apprentices from up-skilling rule (Campus Review, 27 September), John Ross is probably premature in postulating that this measure may get the community on side ...