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Simon Haines hears some disturbing stories about Chinese pre-kindies. If you Google “baby MBA”, you will find many stories about the problems faced by American women trying to upgrade their business qualifications while raising small children – or about shortened ...

Demand for skilled IT staff is booming, leaving universities to struggle to compete for qualified staff, writes Beverley Head. University IT directors should brace themselves for a period of high employee churn. A survey conducted earlier this year by recruitment ...

Attrition in later years is a serious and under-researched area – and the factors at play are rather different from those driving first-year attrition. Jeremy Gilling reports. Lesley Willcoxson says academics and administrators are often shocked to learn that student ...

Universities are shutting down philosophy and history courses at the very time humanity needs them most, writes Andrew Baker. Morality has tangled roots, millennia-deep, sourced in pre-Christian philosophers such as the ancient Greeks Socrates and Aristotle who wondered what we ...

A crusty old bugger considers his days are numbered as the young ’uns get preferential treatment. By Joseph Gora. I write as a grumpy baby boomer dinosaur; an old codger-geezer-fart, replete with grey hair, ravine-like wrinkles and an expansive gut. ...

What are the secrets of winning government contracts, asks John Mitchell. Shockwaves hit training providers in NSW recently when ACL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Navitas, won six contracts to deliver the federal government’s language, literacy and numeracy program (LLNP). ...

Simon Crean has been education minister before – and universities are still bearing the brunt of one fateful decision. The last time Simon Crean held the federal education portfolio, he made at least one decision from which universities are still ...

What value are mature age workers for training providers, asks John Mitchell. In my regular visits to training organisations, a common conversation I have with staff is that they are about to retire but they really don’t want to stop ...