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From warzone to ward assistant: a former soldier sets his sights on a nursing career. In combat, just like in a hospital emergency department, you never know what is going to come through the door, and you must always be ...

Top journo joins Monash Award-winning journalist, author and academic Margaret Simons will join the Journalism Department as an associate professor in Monash University’s School of Media, Film and Journalism in July 2017. Simons, who has taught journalism for approximately 25 ...

Creators of new words have to be wary of entering an overcrowded market. The digital-age use of flog was originally as a shortening for food blog, and then achieved notoriety in the sense of fake blog. These flogs, dating back ...

Effective online education doesn’t involve simply uploading a document onto cyberspace, Adam Brimo, the chief executive of educational technology start-up OpenLearning, has said. Speaking about a new partnership his company signed with the University of New South Wales, Brimo said: ...

Professor Jane den Hollander’s review of the Australian excursion to India is of great optimism and vigour, with no disappointments from the trip. Of the many new deals – forged by politicians and vice-chancellors – most focus on international education ...

Abena Dove isn’t your typical troublesome university student union president. As president of the RMIT University Student Union (RUSU), she describes her professional relationship with her vice-chancellor, professor Martin Bean, as “incredible". “When I say it to a room of ...

“I went to university and I hated it.” That phrase sums up the no-holds-barred approach of Dr Catherine Ball when she spoke at the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit at Queensland University of Technology last week. Ball is chief ...

Former federal minister John Dawkins' reforms to higher education are “out of date”, as he freely admitted last year in a letter to the Group of Eight universities. However, as associate professor Julia Horne, university historian at the University of ...

Innovation must not leave the public in the dust, a federal minister has told a conference. The assistant minister for vocational education and skills, Karen Andrews, told the Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit on Friday that while universities were ...

At the recent Universities Australia conference in Canberra, an audience of higher education executives were told that they should use their institutions’ research ideas to convert rust belts into brain belts. A month later at Times Higher Education’s Young Universities ...