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The first law doctoral scholarships to be offered by the University of Technology, Sydney have been named after Australia’s first female Governor-General and human rights advocate, Ms Quentin Bryce AC.The doctoral scholarships will be offered by the UTS Faculty of ...

Darragh O Keeffe reports on new efforts to provide quality clinical placements for the health professionals of tomorrow. Providing students from various disciplines, such as nursing, physiotherapy and podiatry, the opportunity to learn and work together in aged care facilities ...

Journal rankings and indicators for applied research to be revisited for ERA mark two The Australian Research Council (ARC) will hold a fresh round of public talks in early 2011 on its new Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. ...

Australia needs to ask itself what is a university John Phillips, the outgoing chancellor of the University of Western Sydney (UWS) would like to see Australia have a clearer definition of what is a university. Phillips who will leave the ...

The number of foreign students in Australia who were very highly satisfied with their overall study experience is down another 10 per cent since last year. Scholarships are increasingly imperative to prospective foreign students when choosing the country and institution ...

A 2009 roundtable said Australia’s government should consider “hubs” for international students, and the Baird review agreed. Yet, Sweden’s Uppsala University has been doing hubs for nearly 400 years. Sweden’s got a lot of great qualities. But the price of ...

Changes to UK higher education could help shift the international education balance back in Australia’s favour, without unbalancing research. Forthcoming changes to the UK’s higher education system could give Australia a competitive edge in education exports without affecting the potential ...

Global perspective has opened business opportunities for students A small group of Australian executives recently attended a briefing in Sydney on a unique MBA program that would immerse them in classrooms and cultures throughout Asia and the US. The executive ...

Australia is about to experience an explosion in the number and type of skilled workforce members it will need to achieve its economic goals over the next decade. The face of Australia’s workforce is set to change dramatically in the ...

Educators need to think about doing things differently Along with the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein is credited with the much quoted dictum: “You can’t continue to do the same thing and expect different results.” It is also, I believe, ...