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Vice-chancellors say trip has fortified a worried sector Still reeling from the fallout of the attacks on Indian students, Australian universities are taking steps to ensure its biggest overseas market – China – could better weather a similar controversy. A ...

Legislation should not be passed without a discussion peper says Go8 The Group of Eight is urging key politicians to reject pending Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) legislation unless its demands for a discussion paper are met. Its ...

Government keen to look at international student visa issue, says UTS VC Tertiary Education minister Chris Evans will seek a re-examination of Australia’s visa system and its impact on foreign students, according to a delegate who travelled with him to ...

Griffith professor funded for cutting-edge ancient DNA research The Australian Research Council (ARC) awarded a discovery grant for cutting-edge DNA research that could reveal the origins and even physical appearance of the first Australians. Dr David Lambert, professor of evolutionary ...

Australian universities need to stop bypassing Brussels when they do business in Europe, says Brendan Nelson. The European Union has developed into a potent and coherent structure, and Australian tertiary education leaders need to factor Brussels in when they’re trying ...

The real beauty of sending top Australian researchers to Europe, Austrade says, is luring top students down under. We’re sitting in a University of Bergen lecture room. It’s about 10am and daylight is starting to seep through the clouds and ...

Group of 8 critics are disappointed over the ongoing questioning of the Bradley review, writes Dani Cooper. The Group of 8 has been accused of “self-interest” in its latest attacks on the Bradley review and its call for deregulation of ...

UA’s chair has been elected to head the governing body of a unique OECD think tank. Professor Peter Coaldrake, the Queensland University of Technology vice-chancellor and Universities Australia chair, has been given the leadership of a unique Organisation for Economic ...

While it may seem the rankers are battling to outrank one another, QS’s Nunzio Quacquarelli writes that it very much depends what users are looking for. In the past three months, a number of researchers of global university rankings have ...

Are reasons for non-completions worth examining, asks John Mitchell. The discussion paper recently released by Skills Australia, Creating a future direction for Australian VET, raised some immediate controversies, (Campus Review Vol 20, No 21) but one particular section of the ...