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Winthrop Professor Peter van Onselen has been appointed by the University of Western Australia to develop the university’s new Masters of International Journalism course. van Onselen was awarded his PhD in political science from UWA. He was an associateprofessor in ...

Researchers today have the understanding and technologies to investigate life at all levels. Medical imaging, genomics, structural biology, integrated biological systems, bioinformatics and health informatics are providing powerful and versatile tools for researchers to investigate the structure and interaction of ...

Health science faculties have strong reputations for meeting the demand for health care professionals with high-quality graduates. Some are worried that research funding cuts might make meeting that demand more difficult. At a time when health care needs are growing ...

The sector wants to see long overdue findings from the largest study of Australian HDR students ever conducted. On the eve of a new plan to address the nation’s urgent research workforce needs, the federal government is yet to publicise ...

Universities Australia intercedes as the long fight for equitable employment of women in higher education's top jobs enters new territory. New interventions are under way to lift the number of female academics in the nation's universities as it becomes clear ...

TAFEs should enjoy the same funding arrangements as universities when they deliver higher education qualifications, experts believe - but they had better not hold their breath. Australia's elite universities and the federal government's skills advisory body believe the government should ...

The cultural and economic loss to the country of women quitting science and engineering careers affects every field from medicine to climate research to astronomy. A summit being held today in Canberra is exploring ways to keep the best female ...

As higher ed moves to a new quality assurance framework, the United Arab Emirates snaps up Australia's QA guru. Dr David Woodhouse has walked a thin line in Australian higher education. As founder and executive director of the nation's pre-eminent ...

TAFEs want commonwealth funding for their degrees, and the peak university group agrees - but says there's no hurry. The peak TAFE and university bodies are at loggerheads over higher education funding, with TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) arguing that its ...

QUT's vice-chancellor has told the English higher education funding council that public universities in the UK and Australia are likely to face more financial pressure and limited capacity to compensate for shortfalls. Universities need to bring their message to the ...