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Finding love may be all about how you tilt your head Leave it to a newlywed husband-and-wife research team to uncover that the way we angle our heads affects our chances of wooing a mate. Human facial attractiveness and what ...

Survey shows research offices fail to support journalism research portfolios A newly established Council of Journalism Professors (CJP) will fight to ensure journalism is recognised as academic research. At a meeting of the council held in Sydney last week concern ...

The other recalcitrant state – from a VET perspective – is now set to become the other non-Labor state. And it means lower VET fees and different international education policies. The Coalition’s apparent win in Victoria on Saturday paves the ...

ACPET says the immigration department has misrepresented it over the latest changes to student visas. Just days after a meeting of stakeholders led to an apparent détente with the government, the private training peak body is back on the warpath ...

Boost in funding still not enough, say researchers Spending on research funding into Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias has increased tenfold since 2000, figures from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) show. The NHMRC’s research funding into dementia ...

Plans for legislation to create a national VET regulator may face delays The legislation is expected be tabled in federal parliament in the final sitting but the NSW parliament first needs to pass a bill transferring its regulatory powers to ...

Policy proposition to stem billion dollar losses in international education sector Desperate to avoid industry collapse, international education advocates will petition Immigration Minister Chris Bowen to amend the nation’s student visa program, at an meeting being held in Canberra today, ...

The lower house may have voted for a student services and amenities fee, but the Senate – and legislative process – still stand in the way. On-campus services appear unlikely to be thrown an eleventh-hour financial lifeline, despite last week’s ...

For a state at the pointy end of educational innovation, Victoria’s election has turned into a tertiary education-free zone. The Victorian ALP appears to have defused skills as a contentious policy area, with tertiary education barely rating as an election ...

To fee or not to fee? It’s a question that elicits very different responses across Europe. And the differences are hampering brain circulation in a continent where collaboration is the name of the game, writes John Ross “Universities say one ...