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Canada doubles international students in 10 years The Canadian government has said that last year’s intake of 80,0000 international students represented an almost doubling of the figures for a decade earlier. Embassy* magazine reported that international student recruitment numbers jumped ...

Lincoln, New Zealand’s smallest university, would nearly triple its staff numbers and annual income if a surprise proposal for a merger with the largest Crown research institute, AgResearch, goes ahead. The merger has been touted as creating a university that ...

Green tea, mushrooms cut breast cancer risk Chinese women who ate mushrooms and drank green tea significantly cut their risk of breast cancer and the severity of the cancer in those who did develop it. Min Zhang, from the University ...

Welcome to the first round of Professor Punt for 2009. In reality, Professor Punt is Stephen Clarke, professor of sports statistics at Swinburne University. Due to our publishing deadlines, our tips are a week ahead.

Politics matters. In one corner is Kim Carr and Denise Bradley and in the other is Treasury. Julia Gillard is shuffling between the two. The decisions that get made in the next couple of months will resonate for decades, says ...

The higher education sector needs a new rankings system which is broad, ethical and global, says Adam Shoemaker. I believe that years of comparative university rankings will achieve something positive: they will act as a spur for improvement, an irritant ...

Why is the concept of a regional national university such a hot potato, asks Julie Hare.t whether a single regional national university is the answer is far from clear. One Bradley recommendation was to look at the feasibility of establishing ...

Preventing cyber-crime, improving nerve regeneration, strengthening poor communities’ economic prospects, managing pain in critically ill patients, studying the effects of smoke on wine country grapevines. They’re among the research topics of this year’s 23 Fulbright scholars. The 2009 Fulbright scholarships ...

VSU was an “outrageous intervention” in universities’ affairs, Universities Australia chair Professor Richard Larkins told the National Press Club earlier this month. But the federal government’s VSU response raises the intervention bar even higher, according to a Melbourne-based higher education ...