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Medical educators want standards to help weed out troubled students – before they turn into troubled doctors. By Susan Woodward. Educators are calling for a set of uniform national standards to govern the professional conduct of medical students. They say ...

Victoria University’s Berwyn Clayton has been named VET Researcher of the Year by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. Clayton is director of the Work-based Education Research Centre at VU. She previously headed the Centre Undertaking Research in Vocational ...

A move to postgraduate law degrees has opened up a battleground over fees. By John Ross. The juris doctor (JD) – a US-style masters-level law degree – has come in for some flak over naming rights, with critics claiming it ...

Universities and research organisations could enjoy network speeds thousands of times as fast as the NBN, writes Beverley Head. Australia’s Academic and Research Network, AARNet, plans a terabit per second communications trial for later this year and believes it will ...

The University of Melbourne has appointed directors for two projects funded under the commonwealth government’s Super Science scheme. Associate Professor Glenn Moloney will lead National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR), a $47 million four-year project to develop infrastructure for ...

Conor King will stay on as executive director of Innovative Research Universities (IRU), following a four-month stint as the group’s acting director. Previously, King spent two years as principal consultant with the tertiary sector consulting group PhillipsKPA, following a two-year ...

Professor Pauline Nugent takes over next month as deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at the Australian Catholic University. A former nurse and the 2009 Victorian Businesswoman of the Year, Nugent has been ACU’s dean of health sciences since 2007. Before that she ...

University of South Australia lecturer David Blaiklock has edged out artists from 43 countries to claim two awards at the Hong Kong International Poster Triennial. Blaiklock was awarded the gold and bronze medals in the Act category – one of ...

While the federal government reviews how much money it should allocate for universities’ core mission – teaching – a new OECD report has revived the spectre of third stream funding. By John Ross. Victoria might have progressed further than any ...

The shelves in Australian universities’ new high-tech library, in Melbourne, could reach all the way to Geelong. It’s said the digital age is upon us, but for university libraries – ever-growing repositories of vast volumes of information – its arrival ...