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Currently, there are something in the order of 17 war-like conflicts happening around the globe, with the latest bloodbaths occurring in Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt. The actual number of ‘wars’ depends of course on what you mean by ...

Innovation minister Senator Kim Carr (right)has underscored the Australian government’s commitment to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in a speech delivered to an international conference in Canada. Speaking in Banff last week, Carr told delegates at the Fourth International SKA ...

The Thesis Whisperer is now a year old, has 14 contributors and has racked up just over 100,000 hits. Nowhere is the diversity of the higher education world more evident than on the internet. From vice-chancellors to first-year undergraduates, there ...

The number of training organisations delivering publicly funded VET increased from 2455 to 2794 training organisations. There has been an overall increase in the number of students enrolled in the public vocational education and training (VET) system in 2010, a ...

The ANU by 2020 plan, currently in draft form, sets out a series of guidelines for the university to take a leading role in research and public policy over the next nine years.  The draft, which has been circulated for ...

The main forecast used by Deloitte assumed that the outcome of the present Knight Review process was a restoration of more balance in the policy settings: Withers. Findings of a Universities Australia commissioned report analysing the impact of the international ...

Universities clamouring for more funding will find a supporter in Lee Rhiannon, who took her seat in the Senate two weeks ago. New Greens senator and education spokesperson Lee Rhiannon has flagged concerns about the demand-driven funding bill currently before ...

QS is the only global university ranking to break down its data by subject. Its methodology is largely subjective, based on university reputation amongst 15,000 academics and 5000 employers globally The Australian National University (ANU) is the brightest star in ...

A number of leading UK universities intend to take up the London government’s challenge to increase their intake of high-achieving students, raising the prospect of expansionist competition under higher education’s new market system. A survey carried out by Times Higher ...

The agreement, in which the length of contracts was a key sticking point, has taken two and a half years to reach. The second of a triumvirate of universities in NSW that was holding out on fixed-term contracts struck an ...