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Australia is a world leader in considering access and quality issues in widening access to higher education Last month, the OECD hosted the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) General Conference, titled Attaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education. The conference ...

The rise in applications for tertiary study in 2013 is due to the removal of caps on universities and New South Wales increasing the school leaving age to 17, according to the Universities Admission Centre (UAC). At the halfway point ...

TAFE NSW’s new managing director, Pam Christie, discusses the impact of the NSW government’s Smart and Skilled reforms. What is the significance of the government’s decision to create the role of TAFE managing director? This is an important milestone as ...

Maori and migrant communities will soon form New Zealand’s majority – but the system is failing them. Two strands of discussion have come together this week in New Zealand, in much the same way as they did in Australia a ...

Catherine O’Sullivan has been appointed to Bond University’s newly created role of pro vice-chancellor pathways and partnerships, to expand the university’s engagement with community and industry groups across Australia. O’Sullivan brings to the role 30 years’ experience in senior management ...

Monash University has appointed renowned researcher and legal consultant Professor Bryan Horrigan as the new dean of the faculty of law. Horrigan currently holds the Louis Waller chair of law within the faculty and is also the associate dean (research). ...

Professor Anthony Elliot has started work as the new director of the University of South Australia’s Hawke Research Institute, where he will provide leadership for an enhanced program of publically engaged social science, both in Australia and globally. A world-renowned ...

Professor Tom Marwick has been welcomed by the University of Tasmania as the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania’s new director. Marwick has an outstanding record in both medical research and research leadership in Australia and internationally, and has a strong interest ...

Jennifer Peasley is La Trobe University’s new librarian. Currently deputy librarian at Macquarie University, her impressive achievements there include the delivery of a new state-of-the-art library building using automated storage and retrieval systems, as well as the development of the ...

"The road map that this paper lays out will enable Australia to make the most of the immense opportunity that the Asian Century represents." The vice-chancellor of Monash University, Professor Ed Byrne AO, has congratulated Prime Minister Julia Gillard and ...