Most universities struggle to knit disciplines together around the major problems of our times, a conference has been told. Researchers and the public service need to find new mechanisms to apply the products of scholarly work to public policy, the ...
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Shock of the new: power bills to force an IT rethink
If electricity prices surge post-carbon tax, universities could face huge extra cost burdens because computing is a prime suspect when it comes to sucking up power. Starting this month, many Australians face a significant spike in their electricity bills as ...
More »A teachable moment
We must show why public universities return to the community, many times over, the money spent providing higher education for the nearly one million students now on campus. The Higher Education Base Funding Review offers a rare opportunity to educate ...
More »ASQA and TEQSA: same intent but still poles apart
The overt remit of TEQSA legislation is quality assurance but the VET mandate was for aggregation, refinement and consistency, not reform. A major cultural shift needs to take place in vocational education training before national regulation can work effectively, the ...
More »Call for united approach on relevant finance research
Accounting research should improve accounting practice, rather than simply describe or understand or critique it Accounting research is often considered pointless and irrelevant by practitioners according to leading finance academics and leaders of business who contributed to a book released ...
More »Bond gets new vice-chancellor
UQ's Tim Brailsford talks about the challenges of moving from a public to a private university. Bond University is a “pretty special” place but does present its own challenges, says incoming vice-chancellor professor Tim Brailsford. Brailsford is currently the Frank ...
More »Sector spruces up image in marketing makeover
Austrade has rolled out Future Unlimited as the next best hope for marketing education to international students. The university sector has a shiny new brand name - Future Unlimited - as Austrade tries to recapture the waning attention of international ...
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