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Aging campus infrastructure is set to be renewed, staff numbers boosted and sport subsidies reinstated following the long-awaited passage of the student services and amenities bill last week.

Skills Australia develops scenarios to get a handle on how universities and VET will contribute to the nation’s future workforce.Australia’s unique standing in the world economy is behind a major revision of future training needs by the government’s chief workforce-planning ...

A bold proposal for a new medical school intended to help solve acute rural doctor shortages has met with strong objection from students, doctors and academics who say the existing system is in crisis. Annabel McGilvray reports. When Emeritus Professor ...

Given there was bipartisan support for the recommendations, TEQSA may now be established by federal parliament in time to meet the government's July 1 deadline. Higher education leaders across the sector have welcomed last week’s Senate Committee recommendations for TEQSA, ...

Higher education stakeholders are treading water on Budget eve The fortunes of the vocational education and training sector are expected to shine in an otherwise lacklustre status quo outcome for higher education in this year's federal Budget. Amid the final ...

Ranking bodies will be required to consider all public submission and be transparent unlike in 2010 The ARC is fine-tuning the journal-ranking system to improve transparency and prevent the variations in ranking rigour it says occurred as part of the ...

Not everyone agrees with John Armstrong’s opinion that knowledge can be shaped in the marketplace writes Annabel McGilvray The humanities must wake from their own dogmatic slumbers and look to the marketplace of ideas in order to save their subsidised ...

There is confusion within the sector about just what role the AQF will play as part of the threshold standards of the yet-to-be legislated TESQA. "Masters Degree (Extended)" will be the new formal label for what are commonly called professional ...

University departments are grooming research outputs to boost ERA Some schools and departments in Australia’s most prestigious universities are quietly adjusting the focus of their research in order to be better placed in the Excellence for Research in Australia ratings ...