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The way university research is measured and rewarded needs to change. Helen Razer has called these times an Age of False Enlightenment, in which our leaders regularly make claims to know what they do not know. We might dub it ...

A new ‘cyber factory’ in Tonsley, South Australia, will be used to train Australia’s future students in automation, robotics and implementing new digital technologies. Flinders University will install the Tonsley Manufacturing Innovation Hub with the help of a $490,000 grant ...

WATTERSTON HEADED FOR MELBOURNE Dr Jim Watterston has been appointed dean of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. He is currently the director-general of the Queensland Department of Education and Training, and has more than 30 years’ experience in education, ...

Today, in UTS' 'brown paper bag', a symposium on advancing the public benefit of universities took place. Resisting commercialisation The need for universities to focus on research and education – not marketing – was a major topic. Professor Raewyn Connell of USYD ...

A new set of rankings puts the MBAs offered by Melbourne Business School (MBS) and AGSM at UNSW in the global top 50. Global higher education company QS produced its inaugural QS World University Rankings: Global MBA using five factors – ...

Despite rural, regional and remote universities being 'anchor institutions' – the economic and intellectual hearts of their respective towns – they're not recognised as such by the federal government. That's the key message of the Regional Universities Network (RUN)'s new National Regional ...

Griffith University and Deakin University have teamed up to create a two-week online course designed to give participants a strong understanding of the concepts and methods essential to undertaking and understanding research. Called ‘Why research matters’, the free course begins ...

A wicked problem, in academia, means a thorny one – one without an obvious solution. In the lead up to the International Day of People with a Disability on December 3, Dr David Armstrong has identified four of these in ...

QUT picks Sheil for VC Professor Margaret Sheil has been appointed the new vice-chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology. Sheil is currently provost, deputy to the vice-chancellor and the chief academic officer at the University of Melbourne, where she ...

The oldest university college in Australia is also one consistently rocked by scandal. St Paul's at USYD, a 200 resident, 'liberal Anglican' all-male establishment suffered its latest public indignity in May this year, when the following post appeared on a ‘St ...