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If the Certificate III in Aged Care Work and the Certificate IV Assessor and Trainer were designed to be the cornerstones of education and skill development for workers in aged care there is a problem. My experience with these qualifications began ...

Within the cool confines of the Australian National University’s supercomputer laboratory, biostatistician Keith Dear couldn’t be further removed from the simplistic and bitterly polarised climate change debate. But, while Australia’s politicians, vested interest groups, advocates and sceptics bang heads over ...

Andrew Norton is known as a higher education researcher, but the most popular post on his blog Observations from Carlton’s Lone Classical Liberal has been about milk bars. “In the back streets of Carlton there was a little milk bar ...

The president of the ACE NSW, Dr Frederick Osman, said the award acknowledges an outstanding contribution by a journalist to the field of education. Education Review is the leading magazine for primary and secondary teachers and principals in Australia and ...

Student mobility between Australia and India requires quality assurance, mutual recognition of qualifications and credit transfers. And unless this mobility is in place there can be no collaboration, the Indian government has told a visiting higher education delegation from Australia. ...

A national review of higher education’s role in improving the lives of indigenous Australians is expected to kick off soon with a call for formal submissions.  Professor Larissa Behrendt, chair of the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for ...

The  Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission has challenged the legality of the multi-million dollar income generated by the states charging public school fees to some temporary residents including international students. The commission’s CEO, Karen Toohey, said the long-held practice, ...

The Australian Research Council (ARC) had received just one submission until the weekend before its August 1 deadline, when an additional 49 commentaries came in. An ARC spokesperson said the final guidelines would be released to the sector about September ...

University of New England (UNE) vice chancellor Professor Jim Barber says the federal government should forgive its HECS debt to regional university students as it drives the sector towards a free market.  He said the move would result in a ...

Universities should in theory be in the box seat in terms of the move toward BYO devices and desktop virtualisation courtesy of their student populations, which have for some time been connecting their own devices to university computer networks. However their ...