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International education has done more to forge ties with Asia than any other sector and can lead the nation’s preparation for the coming “Asian century”, Senator Chris Evans has told a Universities Australia conference. The Minister for Tertiary Education told ...

Despite major changes in communications technology, independent quality journalism remains vital for democracy and the functioning of civil society and maintenance of an informed public sphere, those attending the launch of a graduate school of journalism in Sydney have been ...

Senior executives in universities ought to allocate resources for the improvement and enhancement of teaching and learning as part of the planning and budget cycle. This is one of the approaches needed to overcome significant challenges faced by university leaderships in ...

The tertiary regulator’s power to discipline universities might be undermined if a challenge to the Commonwealth’s authority is upheld in the High Court.  The outcomes of several cases currently before the High Court could challenge the legal viability of the ...

Comparing public attitudes towards international students with those directed at boat people, the Council of International Students Australia (CISA) has suggested Australia isn’t ready to handle more foreign students.  In a well-received presentation, CISA president Arfa Noor told delegates at ...

Prestige will remain the primary driver of student movement in the new Australian demand-driven system, a higher education conference has heard. And that prestige will still be determined by a university’s research outcomes, rather than its teaching and learning quality. ...

A United Nations representative has dismissed a claim by ANU professor Des Ball that a major factor in the growth of opium cultivation in Burma has been ceasefire deals struck between the military government and armed ethnic groups. The regional ...

China's tertiary education sector is an expanding area attracting millions of dollars in government funding a year, and one which foreign partners should not shy away from taking part in.  That was the message of Professor Jeffrey Lehman, an American ...

Universities need to start thinking about what they will have to offer a child born today when she finishes high school in 2030 and consider how they will compete for her attention in a world completely upended by the information ...

 A successful UWS assistance program is helping non-traditional students get through the demands of campus life.   With the movement of higher education from an elite to a mass system, precipitated in part by the setting of governmental targets for both ...