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Reactions have been mixed to the announcement that reward funding would be restructured and a discount on HECS fees for maths and science subjects removed in the federal government’s mid-year economic and fiscal outlook. Maths, statistics and science units will attract ...

Victoria University is the latest institution to confirm job cuts, with administrative positions to be reduced over the next three months, while Macquarie and Sydney universities continue to negotiate with union members. Victoria vice-chancellor Peter Dawkins said in a statement that ...

Older postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences are being overlooked for government and academic jobs because of their age, a study has found. The study by the national postgraduate students association has found a series of disconnects between government ...

Former dean of arts at a regional NSW university Professor Sandy Thomas is for the first time attending Incoholics Anonymous (IA) – an organisation concerned with workers in the corporate sector who have become addicted to income generation. Thomas: Hello ...

The newly formed group Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows (ALTF) has submitted a formal response to the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Review conducted by Alison Johns of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Johns was contracted by DEEWR to ...

The nursing workforce is facing a staff turnover crisis with 15 per cent of nurses saying they will leave the profession within a year, the first national survey of nurses’ workplace attitudes has found. The survey by three Monash University ...

Just as a round of government funding gets underway, new research looks at the growth of teaching nursing homes in Australia. The majority of the teaching nursing homes currently operating in Australia are in metropolitan areas, are large in size ...

While nurses and healthcare professionals frequently top the list of the most trusted professions, it is critical for universities to challenge the status quo of ethics education, says one ethicist. One would argue with the proposition that healthcare professionals ought ...

A NSW parliamentary inquiry has backed calls for transport concessions for all international students, noting that this will help them find cheaper accommodation. With the new semester approaching, housing affordability remains a significant concern for  students. The inquiry also recommended registration ...

We have dominated the Asia-Pacific campus playground but there’s a bigger kid ready to move in Back in the 1990s and noughties, America's leading public universities watched Australia's success with envy as we educated hundreds of thousands of full-fee paying ...