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Universities might be breathing easy in the aftermath of a recent court ruling that protects them if their web services are used for illegal file sharing. But they shouldn’t relax just yet. John Ross reports. Universities could again face litigation ...

Universities are growing way faster than the government expected – and it’s both a blessing and a curse. john Ross reports. The federal government has been taken by surprise by the early success of its own university expansion policy, and ...

It’s been a long time between rounds, but EIF funding started to flow again last week. Julie Hare reports. After a long and frustrating wait, funding for the third round of the Education Investment Fund started to flow when the ...

A new research program will drive collaboration. Julie Hare reports. Sixteen universities have been deemed eligible for the federal government’s collaborative research networks funding under the program’s draft guidelines. The naming of the universities has resolved earlier confusion in the ...

Students have been found to be 40 per cent less empathic than they were just a decade or two ago. Today's college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and 1990s, a University of Michigan study ...

Batchelor Institute gets a reprieve with $8.9 million and new ties with CDU. Julie Hare reports. After months of uncertainty about its future, the federal government and Charles Darwin University last week came to the rescue of the financially strapped ...

Online intro Shifting sands in federal government policy are scaring the horses, according to a Sydney-based vice-chancellor. By John Ross A wind change in the Canberra policy environment has made universities nervous, with possible ramifications for the Bradley participation target ...

Advances in technology and changing community attitudes are finally bringing university education within reach of severely dyslexic people. Jeremy Gilling reports. Jim Bond is fortunate. With both parents working in non-academic jobs at Macquarie University, he aspired to a university ...

Market changes in international education are more about policy creep than market conniptions. By John Ross. Fly-by-night private colleges focused on profits rather than quality have copped much of the blame for the problems in international education. But the private ...