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Are many third-level requirements just a crude way of getting the ‘right people’, asks Stuart Middleton. The notion of sectors and calendar years seems to be hard-wired into our educational psyches. At this end of our day, we measure out ...

To understand a university properly we should note that they are like self-assembling molecules, and are therefore chaotic, inner-directed, uncontrollable and indestructible, writes Giles Pickford. Every now and then governments try to tackle the question of managing universities more like ...

As part two of the Melbourne model gets under way, the university that pioneered it is breathing easier. By Annette Blackwell. The University of Melbourne has made changes to its new-generation undergraduate curriculum after satisfaction ratings from the first cohort ...

Evaluations of teaching need to be to be ‘read with a political eye’ and moderated with other forms of assessment writes Jillian Blackmore Universities now focus on teaching and learning as quality has become the marker of distinction in international ...

Contemplators and reticents lurk among the e-collaborators research into online use in universities finds While Generation    may have embraced online social networking sites with gusto, a study has found university students are often reluctant to participate in university online learning ...

There is no quick fix to the skills shortage, says John Mitchell. The recent floods in Queensland have led to headlines around Australia that rebuilding the damaged sections of the state will be slowed down by the lack of skilled ...

In the UK there is a shift to judging published research on professional and policy impacts. Once institutional spinning slowed around the Excellence in Research Australia assessments, separate disciplines took a realistic look on how they fared and what it ...

New statistics on teenage study across the educational sectors reveal some interesting trends. Teenage higher education students began embracing the Bradley expansion agenda a few years before the federal government adopted it in 2009, according to new figures from the ...

Ballarat is upgrading its relationship with its longest standing private partner, as it gears up for 2012. The University of Ballarat is taking one of its most significant long-term relationships to “the next level”, says vice-chancellor Professor David Battersby, by ...

English language courses are experiencing unprecedented popularity – on international TV, anyway. An English language program broadcast through the Asia-Pacific region was the second-most downloaded of any ABC TV program last year, attracting well over a million video podcasts. Australia ...