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Taiwan aims for last word on Mandarin

These days, everybody wants to learn Mandarin – and the other China, Taiwan, says it’s the best place for an authentic Chinese learning experience. Taiwan is the latest Asian tiger to stake its claim as a higher education hub, with ...

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Base funding review goes to the basics

The base funding review for higher education teaching raises some basic questions: what exactly do we mean by funding for teaching? And who exactly is going to provide that teaching? The long-awaited base funding review for higher education faces a ...

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Auditors praise Carnegie Mellon

While Carnegie Mellon has copped criticism for absorbing taxpayers’ money, the issue doesn’t rate a mention in the campus’s first national audit report. Five years after it opened its doors in Adelaide, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Australia has undergone its ...

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Floods wreak havoc on Qld enrolments

Brisbane power cuts are delaying notifications of offers to prospective students. Rising waters caused a special kind of havoc for Queensland universities last week. Power cuts at the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) in the Brisbane suburb of Milton – ...

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Red books don’t mean red faces

Leaking is all the rage. But is it art or artifice, wonders John Ross. It’s been a wet summer, for the media as well as everyone else. On top of a deluge of flood stories, reporters tapped into a steady ...

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Victoria: Coalition makes a start

Victoria is arguably the innovator when it comes to tertiary education. But this just adds to the workload when government changes hands. Victoria’s new Coalition government has made a start on its tertiary education agenda, with higher education and skills ...

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