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The University of Sydney has appointed professor Michael Reid to chart the way forward to world pre-eminence in health and medical research. Reid will chair a steering committee charged with advancing the way the university’s health and medical research enterprise ...

Barely hours after the 2014 Oscars ceremony had finished, online headlines were touting its most gifable, or GIF-Able moments. The word refers to the image file format GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) which was originally created as a means of exchanging ...

A disturbing ASQA report on training in aged care highlights VET system flaws – shortened courses, invalid assessment and limited work placements – that the regulator must be allowed to fix. By John Mitchell. I remember very clearly making arrangements ...

The hard part for Queensland is confronting adverse challenges as the rate of change accelerates. By Lynne Foley. I speak from deep in the heart of TAFE Queensland reform, as the tough end of merging three TAFE institutes – Brisbane ...

University of Adelaide’s VC touts advantages of move to shrink class sizes. By Antonia Maiolo. Students at the University of Adelaide can expect to receive more individual attention this year under the institution’s plan to expand face-to-face classes in small ...

Academic’s peers brush off his concerns that crowdsourcing could threaten government funding. By Antonia Maiolo. An expert warns that the use of online fundraising to bankroll research could result in public spending cuts. Joe Cox, principal lecturer in economics at ...

The internationalisation of higher education has been driven by the developed world, but a recent event marked a chance for emerging nations to steer the conversation. By Helen Zimmerman. In mid-January this year, there was a seminal meeting of international ...

Professional roles comprise more than half of university employees. Check out some firsthand accounts of the work that they do. By Dallas Bastian. There are more than 56,000 people in tertiary education administration and management roles in Australia, supporting universities ...

The early evidence suggests the demand-driven system is off to a good start but the ‘perverse’ incentive to underserve students who need more assistance should go. By Peter Dawkins. One of the initial steps of the Abbott Government in its ...

ATEM/Campus Review awards honour ‘true builders of the nation’. By Antonia Maiolo. Applications are open for this year’s Association for Tertiary Education Management/Campus Review awards. The executive director of ATEM, Paul Abela, said tertiary education managers have a unique profession ...