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 ...
More »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 ...
More »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 – ...
More »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 ...
More »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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