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Open source software has proved particularly popular among universities, as it is generally cheaper to buy and operate than proprietary systems, writes Beverley Head. Flinders and Monash Universities are the latest in a conga line of tertiary institutions making the ...

An ALTC campaigner says the Gillard Government lacks a coherent strategy for higher education innovation. Closure of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) is symbolic of an incoherent strategy for innovation in higher education, one of the campaigners trying ...

Victorian VET was happy with last week’s state budget, but a renowned legal figure has attacked the state’s eligibility rules. Victoria’s Higher Education and Skills Minister, Peter Hall, has kept the faith with the state’s VET sector, with the state ...

Last week Chris Evans hinted this could be VET’s year, as far as budget allocations are concerned. And Victoria has beaten the Commonwealth to the punch, with a budget that all but ignores universities In what could be a foretaste ...

Details of the agreement between Macquarie and the NTEU reveal a compromise on core issues to suit the current environment. A conversion clause that allows temporary academic staff to transition to full-time jobs is a key feature of an industrial ...

Grant goes to project to help smaller cities adapt to climate change RMIT University has been awarded a grant to collaborate with researchers in Bangladesh and Vietnam to better understand climate risks facing secondary cities and inform new adaptation guidance. ...

Universities are rewriting the rules about what a teaching and learning space should look, feel and act like, writes Matthew Lynch The traditional institutional spaces that have dominated Australia’s landscape of higher education are being supplemented with a new spatial ...

It’s time we got past this whole sector thing, writes Stuart Middleton I have just returned home from the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association conference in Melbourne, and very good it was too, with interesting papers, good keynotes ...

Rampant demand for VET in Victoria may not be all it seems Enrolments have skyrocketed in what’s currently Australia’s only fully demand-driven tertiary education system, sounding a cautionary note for a federal government that’s committed to a demand-driven system for ...

A study finds that Australian universities are good at exporting campus culture Two Australian universities successfully incorporate their culture into overseas campuses despite home academic staff not transferring, a UK study has found The study found that universities with overseas ...