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The Australian National University is the latest institution to flag the possibility of staff cuts, with vice-chancellor Ian Young announcing it needs to save $40 million dollars to remain financially healthy. But the National Tertiary Education Union says the suggested cuts ...

Australia’s dominant political parties are in a “race to the bottom” when it comes to funding the higher education sector, which needs to start publicising its importance to society – and the economy, a conference in Sydney has heard. Vicki Thomson, ...

Bowing to pressure from staff and students, the University of Queensland will hold an information session on a controversial new coal seam gas (CSG) research centre later this month. As reported in Campus Review online last week, funding links between the ...

Fiona Wood asks if ERA should be doing something more useful than just stocktaking.Did you know that more than half the world’s 7 billion people are under 30 years of age? And that 90 per cent of these youthful people ...

‘Publish or perish’ is the unofficial motto of scientific life. Get your research out there! Get citations! Get your rankings up! But it’s easier in some areas than others, as University of South Australia pain specialist Professor Lorimer Moseley has ...

With so much information available online, and changing workplace needs, universities need to take this opportunity to examine what and how they teach writes Roger Hadgraft. The first two articles in this series focused on risk management issues and the ...

Pro-vice chancellor for global reach and pedagogical integrity, Professor Mal Sway, stares ruefully out of his office window as the dean of engineering, Professor Les Spanner, enters the room to talk about student enrolments. Professor Sway: Did you hear what ...

Skills Australia CEO Robin Shreeve wonders why the VET sector with thousands of providers  has not followed the school approach of having external Boards of Studies award qualifications.  One part of the Prime Minister’s recent skills statement was unexpected. That ...

Almost all the UK’s Russell Group universities have failed to reach independently set levels for admitting pupils from state schools and poorer backgrounds, new figures show.  Of the 20 large research-intensive universities, only the universities of Sheffield and Liverpool reached ...

A dispute has been sparked at RMIT University over management’s proposal to embed behavioural standards in academic and professional work plans. Staff believe the new standards could be used against them in work reviews. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) ...