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Just back from a visit to the Chinese province of Anhui, Sharon Bell writes about deepening educational relationships and ponders cultural conundrums. I think we all harbour quite well developed, if not always accurate, perceptions of China: – as an ...

Since the launch three years ago, hundreds of universities across the world have flocked to iTunes U, Apple’s platform for hosting university course content, lectures and pod casts.  Now La Trobe is about to become the first Australian university to ...

Over recent years, the education system of Finland has emerged as being amongst the best in the world. Reasons given usually include a small and somewhat homogeneous population, community respect for education as a public good, local autonomy for schools ...

Universities across the country, free to set their own student numbers for the first time under the new demand-driven funding system, are reporting increases in student preferences for science courses, and parallel rises in offers being made for places. The ...

Campuses are adapting to the lean times by networking and even sharing resources with nearby institutions. Large organisations across Australia will increase their IT budgets by just 1.9 per cent this year – a figure that won’t match inflation. The situation ...

New Melbourne chancellor Elizabeth Alexander has been installed as the 21st chancellor of the University of Melbourne, succeeding Alex Chernov, the Governor of Victoria. Alexander, who was formerly deputy chancellor, has been a member of the university council since 2003, ...

As our campuses begin to welcome the new cohort of students for 2012, tertiary education managers are assessing the dawn of the demand-driven system. Initially the impacts of the new system are likely to be modest as universities monitor their ...

There may be some angst on campuses as institutions gear up to meet the new regulatory deemands. Federal ministers Greg Combet and Chris Evans have now registered the TEQSA Threshold Standards, as required under the TEQSA act. These standards are ...

How the  new national regulator TEQSA uses its power will be all important The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 becomes fully operational on January 29. Higher education providers throughout Australia will become subject to regulation by the ...

The Victorian government experimentation with VET funding is starting to unravel, with the latest revelation that one of its training providers increased its recognition of prior learning enrolments from 1 to 134 in one year. “Blind Freddy could have seen such ...