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A new study indicates university nursing curricula need to be more in tune with the evolving health care agenda in Australia. Annie May reports. Nurses are at the heart of government reforms aiming to prevent sickness. But will the next ...

Australia can’t make the most of what Europe has to offer until its exchange rate goes ***up***, writes John Ross. If you were to express a preferred origin for your overseas students – which, of course, you wouldn’t – it ...

Australian international educators, take heart – it’s way worse in the UK. The UK government has delivered a major blow to local education providers’ prospects of recruiting both staff and students, removing the main immigration stream used by overseas academics ...

Registered nurse education must stay in the university sector – without exception. And any attempts to move it outside will continue to be strongly opposed, the Royal College of Nursing Australia says. Former Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) president and current ...

Australian educators should go over to the emerging central European markets, rather than waiting for them to come here. Poland is the “jewel in the crown” of the new Europe, and VET providers in particular should make it part of ...

VC praised for being a dynamic leader in the community James Cook University’s Professor Sandra Harding has signed up to lead the northern Queensland university as its vice-chancellor and president for a further five years. The chancellor of JCU, Lieutenant ...

Less traditional disciplines have not too many things to benchmark themselves against The Australian Research Council (ARC) says some disciplines may see unexpected results when the council releases its first university research rankings early next year. “In the less traditional ...

TAFE staff are relocating to industry workplaces, John Mitchell finds. At the start of 2010, a report by Skills Australia called for VET providers to support the development of industry workforces around Australia. The year ends with the release of ...

The tertiary sector isn’t so much split as serrated, writes John Ross. The only thing the Judean People’s Front hated more than the Romans, according to Monty Python, was the People’s Front of Judea. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen reportedly quoted ...

Dr Mark Hay, AUQA audit director, has been appointed executive director of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education in South Africa. Hay, who has been with AUQA since January 2008, will leave this month ...