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Keeping modern data centres powered and cooled is not a trivial exercise writes Beverley Head The IBM Blue Gene supercomputer at the University of Melbourne represents the pointy end of university computing today. But the power it provides could well ...

A new national framework for assessing research is proving challenging to universities in the United Kingdom, too. Changes to national research assessment in the UK are causing jitters amongst English universities, with the concerns raised similar to those here regarding ...

A choked school leaver pipeline is keeping indigenous students away from Australian universities – but a buoyant mentoring program says it has the answer. An upbeat mentoring program operating in 10 universities has set its sights on closing the gap ...

Vice-chancellors are upbeat about their prospects under the Structural Adjustment Fund, even though only one university has so far hit pay dirt. All but one of Australia’s universities will have to wait until late this year to find out whether ...

First it was TEQSA’s turn. Now the vocational regulator’s legislation appears to be headed back for the drawing board. The government may be forced to recreate the legislation for the national VET regulator (NVR) from scratch, with legal advice suggesting ...

There is confusion within the sector about just what role the AQF will play as part of the threshold standards of the yet-to-be legislated TESQA. "Masters Degree (Extended)" will be the new formal label for what are commonly called professional ...

The latest university league table may improve the reputation of rankings per se. But it hasn’t done that much for the reputation of Australia’s top universities. Melbourne is Australia’s most reputable university, according to the latest global league table. It ...

Opposition spokesman on universities Brett Mason has hit the campus trail to show the coalition’s renewed dedication to higher education. The federal opposition says it wants a stronger relationship with universities — and is visiting every vice-chancellor in the land ...

Research at UNSW shows that international students do badly in business faculties of ATN universities but the grades do not reflect that. Australian universities are marking in a way that makes international students and students from international non-English speaking backgrounds ...

The purpose of the university is to prepare people to contribute to society through high-level thinking, writes Stuart Middleton As educational professionals we are letting ourselves down by the continual use of wishy-washy statements about the purpose of education. We ...