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The time has arrived for action on agricultural education, write Simon Livingstone and Peter Smith. Food and Agriculture Organisation data from 2008 estimates there are 6.5 billion people in the world, and this is likely to climb to 9.3 billion ...

The Melbourne model can take some of the credit for a steep increase in the number of undergraduate places on offer to disadvantaged students, according to the university’s acting boss. The University of Melbourne has almost doubled its offers of ...

Universities could lose more than half their overseas student recruits, according to a confidential immigration department briefing. Universities – which have so far escaped the worst of the downturn in international education – could see their overseas student intakes more ...

Yet another Youth Allowance shake-up is on the cards, with a crucial government ally changing his mind. Independent senator Nick Xenophon has signalled he could vote for yet another change to Youth Allowance arrangements, in a move that could mean ...

TAFE industrial relations arrangements need to be overhauled, says the Productivity Commission. State and territory governments should give their TAFEs greater managerial independence and reject jurisdiction-wide industrial agreements for their TAFE employees, says a draft Productivity Commission report into the ...

Australian academics are better off than their English-speaking peers. But this says more about the strength of the economy than the sector. Australian academics are the best paid of those who teach in six Commonwealth countries, a recent survey has ...

‘Regional’ issues took on a distinctly political flavour in DEEWR’s brief to its new master. The federal education department’s initial advice on regional issues, delivered within days of the swearing in of Julia Gillard’s new cabinet, focused exclusively on electorates ...

Victoria is arguably the innovator when it comes to tertiary education. But this just adds to the workload when government changes hands. Victoria’s new Coalition government has made a start on its tertiary education agenda, with higher education and skills ...

Leaking is all the rage. But is it art or artifice, wonders John Ross. It’s been a wet summer, for the media as well as everyone else. On top of a deluge of flood stories, reporters tapped into a steady ...

Brisbane power cuts are delaying notifications of offers to prospective students. Rising waters caused a special kind of havoc for Queensland universities last week. Power cuts at the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) in the Brisbane suburb of Milton – ...