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A group of theoretical physicists has poured water on current theories on the creation of the universe and embraced quantum graphity. Researchers from the University of Melbourne and RMIT University suggest our universe began not as a big bang but ...

The US-based Laureate International Universities has announced a delay in the opening of Adelaide’s new university until at least 2014. The university network’s Asia Pacific managing director, Dr Michael Mann, confirmed the delay but said Laureate was still committed to ...

Synthetic bone technology, developed here in Australia, could herald a major medical breakthrough that revolutionises the treatment of bone defects. We all tend to think of our bones as if they are scaffolding – rigid and fixed, solid, hard and ...

The great, open online university with students sitting in front of computers all day does not seem to be as successful as some people predicted. Almost overnight there appears to be the whiff of cultural revolt in the air. It’s ...

The Grattan Institute report that suggests we should consider pay-your-own-way degrees might work if we were all financially secure, but we aren’t. I’ve copped a little bit of stick over comments I made last week regarding the Grattan Institute’s report ...

By focusing on the business of vocational education and training, rather than good training, we are devaluing a once strong system. The ABC 7.30 Report early this month looked at alleged dodgy training in vocational education and training. It explained ...

An eminent economist believes the Victorian training policy mess is an example of a text book model banging up against the real world. Around Australia, treasury officials and policy advisers are sitting on review committees reconstructing the VET sector. Unfortunately, ...

The various sectors in education have become rigid and fenced off, stifling meaningful development of learning as a whole. It was not done lightly when they named the parts of Berlin after the Second World War that had come to ...

Professor Anne Wallace has been appointed as the head of school of law and justice at Edith Cowan University. Wallace joins ECU from the University of Canberra where she held the position of associate dean (education) in the Faculty of ...

Professor Jane Long will become the new deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at La Trobe University. Long is currently pro vice-chancellor (education) and Winthrop Professor of History at the University of Western Australia, where her responsibilities include teaching and learning planning and ...