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One of the exciting and challenging ways in which New Zealand and Australia has changed over the past 50 or so years has been the explosive flowering of linguistic diversity in our communities. This change has been an uneasy one ...

It’s hard to miss the story in the mass media that the Australian retail industry is in bad shape. The tales of woe are relentless: sudden increase in online purchases from overseas providers, mass closures of local bookshop chains, supermarket ...

Academics, employers and recent graduates are collaborating on a project aiming to benchmark national learning and teaching standards for accounting. The project seeks to put into practice a national model of expert peer review for standardising learning outcomes against those developed ...

Tax breaks and philanthropy are key to the future funding of universities, according to Independent Rob Oakeshott. In an address to a Regional Tertiary Education Conference in Coffs Harbour, Oakeshott told delegates he would push for reforms at the October ...

A recent AUQA report has commended the University of Wollongong for providing an excellent onshore student experience but raised concerns that the structure of its relationship with its Dubai counterpart could pose a “reputational risk”. The audit report also said ...

The recommendation was contained in a report commissioned by the ACT government and conducted by Professor Denise Bradley and made public last week. There will now be an eight weeks public consultation process before the ACT government makes a decision. The ...

Dr Glenn Withers’ plan to return to the ANU is a recurring step in a long career. Dr Glenn Withers has announced he will return to academia when his term as chief executive of Universities Australia expires at the end ...

  Here in New Zealand it has been the between-semester break for education institutions, not that educators get a break with the conference season in full swing. I get a sense that a mood for change is developing. New Zealand ...

  Sydney Business School’s $3.8 million harbourfront campus at Circular Quay is already attracting more students less than five months since moving there, its parent university says. The CBD campus of the University of Wollongong school was officially opened on ...

  Tertiary education minister Christopher Evans will travel to India today, the latest in a series of attempts by the Australian government to mend the relationship between the two countries, which soured after a series of attacks on Indian students ...