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Governments are sending unclear and contradictory messages to teachers, a leading researcher tells John Mitchell. COAG decisions on VET funding arrangements are of secondary importance compared with the future quality of teaching across the sector. Funding arrangements are simply a ...

Huddled in a small, dank and dingy motel room near a city centre, a team of senior managers headed by vice-chancellor, Ian Slap, contemplate the consequences of being discovered by the press who are roaming the vicinity. Jane [PVC for ...

In a letter from Guangzhou, Stuart Middleton asks why Australia and New Zealand don’t train more Chinese tradespeople. I have come up to China with a civic delegation from Auckland with all the trappings that go with that – banquets, ...

What can happen to learning if educational pedagogy ever catches up with technology. A high-definition video communications system for Australia’s universities and research institutions has been unveiled by AARNet and Cisco, and already has a series of converts with Swinburne, Victoria, ...

Michael de Percy  is that rare beast: an adult Australian who does not own a mobile phone. It’s all the more surprising when you realise what he does for a living. De Percy is a lecturer in political science at ...

Despite two years of upheaval and change, and criticism from uninformed sources, the public can be sure that teacher training will remain at a high level.  The discipline of education seems to never be far from the spotlight of political ...

Macquarie University had a bob each way last week when it awarded two former prime ministers honorary doctorates. On Tuesday, April 10, former Liberal PM John Howard was awarded an honorary doctorate during a graduation ceremony at the university in ...

Professor S. Bruce Dowton has been appointed the next vice-chancellor and president of Macquarie University. He succeeds Professor Steven Schwartz who has led the north-western Sydney university for six years. Dowton is currently clinical professor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical ...

The rise and fall of Australian political leaders is less perplexing when viewed through the sociological lenses that have studied the inner workings of street gangs. The analogy might be an unfortunate reflection of our political system, but it’s one ...

Cutting-edge research facilities that can simulate the carbon-laden atmosphere of the future and study its impact on native bushland have been opened at the University of Western Sydney. The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Richmond will house up to ...