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Private provider moves into multimedia course offerings globally. Navitas chief executive Rod Jones wants to put one thing to rest – his acquisition of the $289 million SAE group is not to cushion his company against the downturn in international ...

The ALTC will go in January but peer review will continue - as will assessment of grant money and programs, Education Minister Senator Chris Evans says. The federal government will put in place governance arrangements to ensure appropriate peer review ...

The compliance powers of the proposed national VET regulator (NVR) could spook university chiefs, the opposition has warned. TAFE representatives want the registration standards in the national VET regulator (NVR) bill beefed up to match the draft legislation for the ...

VCs have highlighted indexation as the most important Bradley reform – and one they don’t want watered down by flood cuts or funding reshuffles. The higher education sector mustn’t allow the base funding review or disaster-related funding cuts to derail ...

TEQSA has paved the way for how the sector should work as one on base funding and other policies that affect it. The higher education sector must reach consensus on the base funding review and do a better job of ...

A Senate select committee has found a sure-fire way of eliciting a Liberal view on taxation: just ask the Liberals. A Coalition-dominated select committee has urged senators not to pass the student support and amenities bill, describing the proposed student ...

There are still questions to be answered about the manner and indeed the rationale behind the closure of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, (ALTC). The announcement of the intention to close it down at the end of the year ...

Minister’s research message falls on some sceptical ears. The government could not afford to fund “second-rate” research but universities had time to fix poorly performing disciplines, research and innovation minister Senator Kim Carr told a higher education conference in Canberra ...

Why do I care that the Australian Learning and Teaching Council has gone, asks Adrian Lee. Here I am, a greying retired professor enjoying grandkids and all those wonderful benefits of life after academia. So why am I so upset ...

Does ERA mean excellence for research in Australia or the emperors’ renovated apparel, ask Adrian Gibbs and Barry Osmond. The first national report of the ERA (Excellence for Research in Australia) scheme has been robustly defended by Kim Carr, the ...