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“Privatisation of the publically-owned TAFE system will drive a stake through the heart of education in Victoria.”Colin Long, the Victorian division secretary of the NTEU, commenting on leaked TAFE cabinet documents that make reference to Homesglen TAFE’s preferred model “premised ...

The ATEM/Campus Review awards have lifted the profile of those who help run tertiary institutions. Antonia Maiolo reports The inaugural Association for Tertiary Education Management/Campus Review Best Practice Awards attracted a strong field of entrants, who were praised for raising ...

International students may start suing Australian universities if they fail their classes, a lawyer has warned. Jack Power, a partner at Walsh Halligan Douglas in Brisbane, said there were no precedents yet but the issue was a “sleeping giant”. “If ...

An international review involving University of Sydney researchers has shed light on falls in older people, revealing some interventions can effectively prevent falls in people over 65 and living in their own homes. The review, published in the Cochrane Database ...

More than 1500 TAFE staff, students and unionists have protested outside the office of the Victorian Premier, Ted Baillieu, against savage education spending cuts and the prospect of even larger cuts proposed for TAFE. The contents of a leaked 86-page ...

Melbourne researchers have taken delivery of an improved brain scanner that will allow them to fast-track the detection and treatment of neurological disorders. The positron emission tomography – computed tomography (PET-CT) scanner has been installed at the Melbourne Brain Centre ...

University of Melbourne researchers have found a way to stop liquid from bubbling when heated. They have engineered a textured steel surface which produces no bubbles when water is boiled, reducing damage to surfaces and preventing explosions. “This would be ...

DNA tests will be used to confirm if human remains found by archaeologists in central England are those of the medieval king Richard III. Researchers from the University of Leicester said they had unearthed the skeleton of a male, found under a ...

A SPECIES of harvester ants determines how many foragers to send out for food in much the same way as internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for data transfer. A Stanford University team of scientists has dubbed the ...

Scientists have discovered frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberian permafrost that may contain living cells, raising hopes of cloning the prehistoric animal. Russia’s North Eastern Federal University said an international team of researchers had found rich research material during ...