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Monash has built on its strong international student base to develop a more networked university of the Asia Pacific. Although it has become almost routine to say so, we are living in a time of transformational change. We are still ...

The national broadband network will be very important in helping Australia reach the goals of the Asian Century proposals The Prime Minister’s commitment to building the Asian language competencies of Australians as an outcome of the Asian Century white paper ...

The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, has been given the power to appoint a governing council at the University of Sydney’s troubled St John’s College. The NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell introduced a bill to Parliament last week that ...

Kaylene Harth, institute director, Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE, responds to the final report of the state’s Skills and Training Taskforce. What broad opportunities do you see arising from the report’s recommendation about the future role and purpose of TAFE ...

Jonathan Churchill has been appointed as director of Information Technology & Resources at James Cook University. Currently associate director, technology, at the University of Adelaide, Churchill will take up the JCU position on January 21. Churchill has a BSc (Hons) ...

State legislation to strip university councils of staff and student representatives has the backing of universities across Victoria, says the Minister for Innovation, Louise Asher. With the exception of the University of Melbourne, Asher’s comments to State Parliament suggest that ...

One of our Nobel laureates says the research grant system is much more cumbersome than those overseas and needs streamlining. The efficiency of the Australian research grant system has been called into question by Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt who ...

A survey of 3500 first-year science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students found engineering students at Australian universities were the least satisfied with the quality of teaching. Compared with students in other STEM courses, the budding engineers were more inclined ...

It is disappointing that Labor and Coalition MPs joined ranks to claw back this money from low-income students already struggling to make ends meet in full-time study. Greens higher education spokeswoman Senator Lee Rhiannon commenting on the government’s decision to ...

A team of researchers at the University of Sydney has developed a new technique in which disease-causing bacteria become fluorescent, making deadly germs visible. The new detection technique currently under development at the Faculty of Pharmacy, aims to prevent the ...