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People in more than 100 countries have downloaded La Trobe podcasts La Trobe University passed a milestone this week, recording that more than one million people downloaded from iTunes U free educational podcasts created by the institution. Of the million ...

Draft policy document casts doubt on the use of corporations’ law to register and deregister universities The federal government’s reliance on corporations law to give a national regulator registration powers in higher education may be unconstitutional, Australia’s top-ranking universities say ...

Free help is at hand for lecturers struggling with online teaching An innovative website aiming to demystify the pedagogy of online teaching is now available to university lecturers across the world. The Learning to Teach Online site, which provides professional ...

Survey shows research offices fail to support journalism research portfolios A newly established Council of Journalism Professors (CJP) will fight to ensure journalism is recognised as academic research. At a meeting of the council held in Sydney last week concern ...

Plans for legislation to create a national VET regulator may face delays The legislation is expected be tabled in federal parliament in the final sitting but the NSW parliament first needs to pass a bill transferring its regulatory powers to ...

Growing demand for tertiary qualifications among domestic students Postgraduate studies and short courses are becoming increasingly popular among students, a report into the industry shows. The report, from business analysts IBISWorld, shows an increased demand among Australian adults for tertiary ...

Undergraduates not that easily persuaded to keep studying Academics who suggest to undergraduate students that postgraduate study is a viable option are not likely to significantly influence their students to consider a postgraduate degree, a study has found. The research ...

Legislation should not be passed without a discussion peper says Go8 The Group of Eight is urging key politicians to reject pending Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) legislation unless its demands for a discussion paper are met. Its ...

This year’s global university rankings rankled many in the sector. The dissatisfaction was not confined to Australia, but here we did see vice-chancellors question the methodologies of the three major agencies, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE) and Shanghai ...