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The best way to increase productivity would be to reduce the demands of accountability to the basic metrics and allow the sector to divert money from management to teaching and research. By Giles Pickford.

A fundamental shift in which we talk about research in terms of its relevance to the profession and society and its impact on policy and regulation is needed, writes James Guthrie.

Adelaide is positioning itself to be a university city but it needs across-the-board political will and a degree of "coolness" to happen, writes Malcolm King. There is no comparison between the Anglo face of Adelaide 30 years ago and the ...

The way employers engage recognised training must be addressed, a policy expert says

Research into the history of education is in decline at Australian universities, with serious ramifications on the quality of education policy, says the winner of the highest award conferred by the Australian College of Educators.  Dr Brian Croke, director of ...

Academics – and particularly historians – must have stifled a laugh when they read Fred Hilmer’s prescription for a “brave new world” of university governance. (Campus Review, June 14). According to the UNSW vice-chancellor, modern university governance needs fewer elected ...

The Australian Research Council (ARC) had received just one submission until the weekend before its August 1 deadline, when an additional 49 commentaries came in. An ARC spokesperson said the final guidelines would be released to the sector about September ...

Academics, employers and recent graduates are collaborating on a project aiming to benchmark national learning and teaching standards for accounting. The project seeks to put into practice a national model of expert peer review for standardising learning outcomes against those developed ...

  Sydney Business School’s $3.8 million harbourfront campus at Circular Quay is already attracting more students less than five months since moving there, its parent university says. The CBD campus of the University of Wollongong school was officially opened on ...

TEQSA’s regulatory approach was developed after extensive and sometimes fraught consultation with the states and territories and the higher education sector. Professor Denise Bradley AC will act as chief commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) which ...