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Views on fees are many, varied and firmly entrenched, writes John Ross. It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that tuition fees have been the most hotly contested issue in submissions to the base funding review. Camped behind well-worn ...

The demand for supercomputing power within universities keeps growing writes Beverley Head Commodity graphics processor chips used in games machines and mobile phones are revolutionising high performance processing and making significant inroads into university computing. While there will likely always ...

When BrandMatters began working with CSU in 2009, it was considered a model regional university in the Dawkins mould writes Paul Nelson.ctives, BrandMatters took a careful approach. A successful branding project would have to proceed in bite-sized chunks, that internal ...

Credit rating being looked at by universities in bid to deliver infrastructure The University of Newcastle has joined a growing number of Australian universities who have or are seeking credit ratings. It announced last week that it achieved a strong ...

A new report shows how Australian universities can open their doors to a greater diversity of students. But the change won't be easy.

Stakeholders interested in the TEQSA legislation will be spending the Easter break poring over the draft provider standards which were released for public consultation by the government last week. The standards were published on Wednesday April 13, which was also ...

The University of Technology, Sydney has appointed a builder to provide pre-construction services for world-renowned architect Frank Gehry’s first Australian building – a $150 million business school at the university’s city campus. The plan for the Dr Chau Chak Wing ...

Australia’s leading research funders, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), have agreed to changes in how they assess research publications in the grant applications of those with interrupted careers. These were two ...

Hundreds joined a Sydney protest against threatened cuts to health and medical research funding. Dr Jennifer Byrne was among them. Here she writes why. You can safely say “I know what you did last summer” to Australian scientists, and be ...

Professional organisations could polarise debate on euthanasia if they take a position nursing expert warns Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone, chair of Nursing at Deakin University and an internationally renowned bioethicist says there are good reasons why health advocacy organisations should not ...