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  In the lull before the emergence of TEQSA, the Group of Eight (Go8) will trial a new check of academic quality in its universities, with a focus on final-year undergraduates.  Senior Go8 academics will verify their peers’ grading in ...

Great changes are coming to the sector, says the new Australian Council of Deans of ICT president, and even non-ICT specialists will have to think about how they will be affected. Capitalising on the opportunities and "grand challenges" created by ...

  Industry and educators need to find a neutral space in which they can unpack the language around their commitment to upskilling the workforce.  This is a key message from a communique widely circulated to education policy-makers and business and ...

  Terrible massacres on campuses are fortunately rare, but it is still critical to be alert to warning signs, a conference on threat management was told last week. Dr Gene Deisinger, one of two American speakers at the University of ...

  Five universities have collaborated with leading aged care providers to mount an Australian-first study to reduce social isolation among older people, which the researchers have identified as one of the most serious mental and physical health risks facing the ...

  University of Oxford vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton is on an Australian tour that will culminate in a panel discussion this week on the challenge for universities to “change the world”. The panel, to include Oxford alumni and former Liberal ...

High achieving school leavers will have to keep achieving before they can enter post-grad, university says. Students assured entry to postgraduate courses at the University of Western Australia because they have entered with a high year 12 score will still ...

Growing global demand for courses on border security has prompted the University of Canberra’s school of customs to set up shop in Colombo. If international students can’t or won’t travel to your university, take your university to them: that has ...

TEQSA’s regulatory approach was developed after extensive and sometimes fraught consultation with the states and territories and the higher education sector. Professor Denise Bradley AC will act as chief commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) which ...

  The quality of Australia’s pathway programs is their most saleable asset and must be seized on if the dwindling international education sector is to recover. That’s the pitch from the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) in announcing it will ...