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An international education colleague of mine once told me many years back that he was closely related to the playwright Samuel Beckett. At the time, I didn’t realise how useful being genetically primed to accept absurdity is. Not that my ...

"We have a great TAFE network and many excellent TAFE institutions. But it’s the educators and teachers that make a difference. TAFE’s future depends on its people. You have one of the most important tasks in the country – to ...

Long term reforms need to be less about introducing gadgets and gizmos to engage students, and more about a wholesale reform of the delivery of education and support for research writes Beverley Head. Within just five years it’s more than ...

Journal rankings. Those two words and their implications have conjured up a collective groan, at times an outright roar, from the higher education sector over the past few years. Not least amongst the complaints — the format of the rankings ...

The higher education system in Australia is changing at a rapid pace. Since the Review of Higher Education chaired by Professor Denise Bradley delivered its report in December 2008, the Federal Government has announced and implemented a range of structural ...

Despite numerous reviews, taskforces and summits, including a so-called education revolution, critical problems persist.  So what’s changed? Certainly not government attitudes to funding with universities bracing for the onslaught of uncapped Commonwealth-supported places and Australia still struggling in just about ...

More on Over to You  Professor Sandra Harding, vice-chancellor of James Cook University predicted life in universities, for those at the coal-face and for those in leadership and management roles, would be challenging, profoundly rewarding – “and not for the faint-hearted”. ...

The Academic Ranking of World Universities, produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, bumped some Australian universities up a few places and dropped others (see Campus Review Online August 15 ). Last week the Good Universities Guide, the annual directory of Australian ...

 As the inaugural chief commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Nicoll will lead four other commissioners — also announced last week. Together, they will administer the statutory body’s new powers over some 190 providers, starting January ...

On the third day of the recent riots in England I was sitting in the community college in Dubbo NSW, 500 km west of Sydney, examining educational programs designed to give second chances to previously disengaged people, particularly Aboriginal people. ...