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The Nationals pledge $1 billion to rural and regional education, but the reality might be a lot less. At the recent 90th anniversary federal conference of the National Party, its leader Warren Truss spoke the words that would warm the ...

Panasonic has thrown its weight and $700,000 behind a new chair to funded environmental research The notion that researchers and business are involved in international research and development was a key plank of the Dr Terry Cutler’s review of the ...

Do VET practitioners need professional development in e-learning, asks John Mitchell. E-learning is a contentious arena. One reason is that technology is central to e-learning and technology keeps changing, challenging decision-makers to decide which technologies are the most appropriate. Another ...

The purpose of education is to prepare students for the next step – the world of employment, writes Stuart Middleton. The California state budget is something of an issue. I recently met with faculty at a prestigious university, and the ...

The unstoppable truth is that on-campus education will increasingly become obsolete as technology transforms the teaching and learning experience, writes James G Barber. In learning and teaching circles, the most common view of the relationship between education and IT is ...

Universities need smaller class sizes and they’re going to need lots of new staff. Aren’t they? By John Ross. Higher education experts have questioned some of the assumptions and conclusions from the Group of Eight’s latest forecasts of student demand. ...

CQU has thrown its hat in the ring to become the country’s sixth – and Queensland’s first – dual sector university. By Julie Hare. Central Queensland University has taken the first steps towards reinventing itself as a dual sector university. ...

UTS confirmed world-renowned architect Frank Gehry would design their new business school - his only Australian building. By Julie Hare. Sydney is a city of icons and it’s about to get another one. The University of Technology, Sydney last week ...

The government’s plans for higher education system will barely cope with growing demographics, let alone growing participation rates. By John Ross. The federal government may have to rejig its plans for an expanded higher education system by uncapping student fees ...

Victoria’s recent state budget might have been underwhelming from a higher education perspective – by the southern state’s usual standards, anyway. But Victoria has redeemed itself with a $100 million-plus package for regional education & training. The Victorian government will ...