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The AFL’s Geelong Cats are coming off a loss at the MCG, but they hope to have an edge there next time. Deakin University has built an $8.4 million sports precinct that includes a Melbourne Cricket Ground-sized oval specifically built for the Cats' training. ...

Administration is more centralised and teaching staff are more casualised; the modern university can be a tough place for an academic. Just what has happened to our universities? They are no longer what they once were and there is little ...

If federal public policymakers lack the knowledge and in-house experience related to VET, how can they address its problems? If you have spent the last 40 years in the vocational education sector, like I have, you will be used to ...

Australia can maintain its competitive edge by capitalising on the allure of its lifestyle, environment and social norms. There has been a great deal of media commentary of late analysing the dramatic increase in overseas students choosing to study in ...

Retaining and promoting women in STEM fields and academia requires sweeping reforms in structure and mindset – and that’s as it should be. Late last year, a car was sent to pick up one of our female professors to take ...

Closing the gap between men and women in the workplace requires sweeping cultural change. Real progress has been made towards gender equality over recent decades and these hard-won achievements are nothing to be disparaged. However, there remains much to be ...

STEM education is the Australian Academy of Science’s number one election priority, as per a policy statement released yesterday. Unveiled by academy president professor Andrew Holmes during a speech in Canberra, the group of distinguished scientists' objectives include getting Australian schools' students into the ...

A new report shows that to simply maintain current participation rates in higher education and VET, both sectors will need rapid enrollment growth throughout the coming years. Participation rates, in this context, refers to the proportion of people who are either ...

Two higher education policy heavyweights have found unlikely common ground. HECS architect Bruce Chapman and the Grattan Institute’s Andrew Norton have agreed that the tertiary student loan threshold could be lowered. Norton, Grattan Institute higher education program director, is pushing ...