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Responding to the need for qualified radiographers and sonographers in regional Queensland, Central Queensland University opened new $4 million medical and applied sciences laboratories at its Mackay campus last week. Equipped with state-of-the-art digital imaging equipment, the laboratories replicate a ...

After carving out an impressive research career, Professor Linda Kristjanson takes up her appointment as the new vice-chancellor at Swinburne University of Technology today. Kristjanson leaves Curtin University, where she served as deputy vice-chancellor (research and development). “She is an ...

VET - like HE - will move towards a national demand-driven system, under measures in last week's budget. The question is, whose demand? The federal budget has opened up a new fault line in the supposedly integrated tertiary education sector, ...

Grant goes to project to help smaller cities adapt to climate change RMIT University has been awarded a grant to collaborate with researchers in Bangladesh and Vietnam to better understand climate risks facing secondary cities and inform new adaptation guidance. ...

A study finds that Australian universities are good at exporting campus culture Two Australian universities successfully incorporate their culture into overseas campuses despite home academic staff not transferring, a UK study has found The study found that universities with overseas ...

Public benefit arguments could end up forcing students to dig deeper into their own pockets, says Andrew Norton. Neither public benefit arguments nor OECD averages constitute a convincing case for a big increase in public funding, according to higher education ...

Researchers today have the understanding and technologies to investigate life at all levels. Medical imaging, genomics, structural biology, integrated biological systems, bioinformatics and health informatics are providing powerful and versatile tools for researchers to investigate the structure and interaction of ...

Health science faculties have strong reputations for meeting the demand for health care professionals with high-quality graduates. Some are worried that research funding cuts might make meeting that demand more difficult. At a time when health care needs are growing ...

We need to embrace the potential for innovative, potent and cost-effective pedagogies appropriate to living and working in a digital age writes Jim Taylor Current dialogue surrounding the funding of higher education appears to be stuck in an early 20th ...

It should be easy in the future to ensure that the Minister’s (Kim Carr) oft repeated mantra of funding only excellent research occurs in practise no matter where that research is located write Frances Shannon and Stephen Parker The results ...