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There are signs that Australia’s international student sector is on the up again, with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s latest data showing increases in visa applications and grants, with applications from India on the rise. From January to September ...

Staff, students and alumni of Charles Sturt University (CSU) were saddened last week to learn of the death of Professor John Carroll, the Professor of Communication at the School of Communication and Creative Industries in Bathurst. Carroll died in the ...

A hundred new doctors a year are expected to graduate from the University of Western Sydney’s new clinical medicine school, which has been opened by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Based at Blacktown Hospital in Sydney’s west, it is hoped that ...

Universities will be asked to demonstrate they are taking on student input when it comes to the spending of funds collected under the new Student Services and Amenities bill passed recently by the Senate. The National Union of Students will ...

Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans says he will ask Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to revoke a state policy that denies hospital care to pregnant international students. In response to recent news that at least one Queensland hospital is refusing to ...

When only a handful of people speak a language, attracting attention can be difficult. The Endangered Languages Blog, run by Professor Jane Simpson, a linguistics lecturer at ANU, and several of her colleagues around the country attempts to address that. ...

The area meeting for the creative research group at the University of Due Diligence was coming to an end. The 12 members of the group had managed to get through the agenda smoothly – even the potentially contentious item on ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently described universities as an endangered species. The university’s traditional role as creator, curator and distributor of knowledge is under direct threat from the internet. This is a profound challenge for an institution that pre-dates almost ...

A number of universities spread around the nation are collaborating to assist in the response to fires, floods, hurricanes and quakes. The Innovative Research Universities group has been set up because Australia’s sensitivity to climate change is combining with an ...

Nicholas Saunders had to make big cuts to save Newcastle University but seven years later it is on firm ground, writes Jennifer Bennett. When Professor Nicholas Saunders arrived at the University of Newcastle in 2004 as its vice-chancellor, it was ...