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 A successful UWS assistance program is helping non-traditional students get through the demands of campus life.   With the movement of higher education from an elite to a mass system, precipitated in part by the setting of governmental targets for both ...

The Australian Research Council chief executive Professor Margaret Sheil said she was delighted with the response to the call for nominations for the 2012 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluations.  Sheil said the 147 selected were experts in their ...

Students at a Southern Cross University campus are accusing the institution’s executive of heavy handed tactics in requesting the closure of an online student forum facilitating discussion of the student services amenities fee (SSAF). The student association says it was ...

Providers have welcomed TEQSA’s newly released regulatory risk framework as a good faith attempt, but remain concerned about any increase in administrative burden and the accurate interpretation of risk information. The regulatory risk framework released last week, sets out 46 indicators ...

University general/professional staffs are sometimes presented as if they were part of the ‘problem’ rather than as people with key roles to play in universities, a conference in Sydney has heard. “One could be forgiven for thinking that universities only ...

The number of student places at Australian universities has increased by more than a quarter since 2007, figures released by the government show.  Some 545,000 students will be at universities in 2012, an increase of five per cent on the 2011 figure ...

The peak union for academic staff in Australia has joined a global campaign against Elsevier, one of the world’s largest publishers of academic papers. Elsevier has been criticised for business practices which keep information out of the public domain and a ...

The Group of Eight universities dominate Australian research activity, support and commercialisation but the organisation says that under current government policy they may not be able to compete internationally in future. The Go8 policy note titled "Research Performance of Australian Universities", ...

This video cost around $400,000, was conceived by advertising super agency M&C Saatchi and animated by Animal Logic, the digital studio behind Happy Feet.  But this isn’t the latest advert for Coca-Cola – it’s Austrade’s latest salvo in the battle ...

It’s not for the faint-hearted, but there’s definitely a reason why a video advertising Perth’s Central Institute of Technology has almost two million views on YouTube. Yes – almost two million. 1,916,460 to be exact, as of the afternoon of March ...