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How the hell did Tim Brailsford end up at Bond University? It is an irresistible question to put to the new vice-chancellor of the private not-for-profit university that is an anomaly in the Australian system, where students pay through the ...

Australian governments should look carefully at the economics of extending welfare entitlements to temporary residents, writes Andrew Norton. Public hospitals refusing to admit pregnant international students. Government schools charging fees to the children of international students. International students having to ...

Just in case you were becoming relaxed and comfortable with the abbreviations and acronyms in higher education, the government has thrown in a few more for 2012. Out with the acronyms went some ministers. We regretfully said goodbye to Kim ...

University of Queensland lecturer Tim Kastelle has been using the internet for most of his professional life: as an undergrad at Princeton in the 1980s he was among the first students in the world to be given an email address ...

It’s 4.40pm on a Friday and every student is staring at me attentively. They are not peering at Facebook, they are not tweeting, and there’s complete silence in the classroom. I’d like to say this is because I’m such a great ...

Adequate funding is the key to enticing all universities to participate in the new demand-driven system and enjoy its anticipated spoils, according to Universities Australia. “The missing segment of the [demand-driven] policy framework is delivering on the base funding increases ...

The project implementation group to oversee the creation of a new education entity born out of collaboration between the University of Canberra and the Canberra Institute of Technology has yet to be formed. The ACT government said it would make ...

Research in Australia is of high quality and our journals are respected around the world, say members of the executive of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association. Is Australian VET research of high quality? When we think about ...

An international public policy congress will engage academic delegates from South Africa and Australia alongside government and industry representatives in developing research proposals on issues related to national productivity. The congress is the second of its type held in Cape ...

Milton Greenberg writes that the reasons for lifetime academic positions have been eroded in the US with more staff employed on a contingent basis. The Australian experience bears a striking similarity. It seems that tenure is always in the news. ...