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Two centuries of honours degrees to disappear Britain’s 200-year-old system of awarding honours degrees as firsts, upper and lower seconds, and thirds will be superseded by a higher education achievement report (HEAR) by 2011. A recent report by vice-chancellors called ...

a Polgar, women’s Olympiad, Thessaloniki, 1988. Zsuzsanna, the eldest of Hungary’s remarkable Polgar sisters, was women’s world champion from 1996 to 1999, although she was perhaps fortunate that her brilliant sister Judit – the youngest of the three – never ...

An economist finds strong positive link between indigenous cultural attachment and educational achievement, writes Jeremy Gilling. Dr Michael Dockery, a research fellow with Curtin University’s Centre for Labour Market Research, says some anthropologists are likely to be “aghast” that an ...

Do C grade students make the best CEOs, asks Robert Wood. I first saw the quote “C students make the best CEOs” on the t-shirt of a Kellogg MBA student during the recruiting period while I was a visiting professor. ...

US private education giant Kaplan has its sights set on establishing a teaching-only university in Adelaide, following the signing of an MOU with the University of Adelaide last week. The campus would enrol 5000 campus-based international and domestic students, as ...

Kaplan expands Australian offerings Private education group Kaplan has acquired Murdoch Institute of Technology in Perth from the Alexander Education Group. The Murdoch Institute of Technology offers preparatory courses for direct entry into Murdoch University. The agreement includes the transfer ...

Do educators and business people share the same view of e-learning, asks John Mitchell. Over the past decade Australian VET has actively investigated e-learning from the perspectives of policy, theory and pedagogy, but not so much from the point of ...

Tenders called for green jobs corps The federal government has called for tenders to provide 10,000 training places under its National Green Jobs Corps. Parliamentary employment secretary Jason Clare said several changes had been made to the original tender following ...

Establishing standards does not demand standardisation of curricula – if we get it right. Kerri-Lee Harris takes an international perspective. Academic standards are currently a hot topic in Australian higher education – at least among university leaders and commentators. In ...