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Excellence and engagement are the twin pillars for a system of world class university research, write Caroline McMillen and Peter Høj.nge is consistent with the intent to join up the innovation system and to provide the drivers for collaboration across ...

False dichotomies impede a healthy research sector, says Linda Kristjanson.the broader community (notably industry) fails to recognise the potential inherent in a diverse research sector, and the value of current government programs (such as the ARC Linkage, ARC Centres of ...

Can stand-alone universities do anything to help the policymakers dreaming of a tertiary sector, asks John Mitchell.35 or so stand-alone universities? Do they all need to become dual sector organisations? Or is there some way they can remain stand-alone and ...

Recession hits apprenticeship starts boom times, people often leave their training before completion to take up well-paid jobs. The NCVER has also released preliminary 2008 figures on students and courses, showing a 2 per cent increase in VET students over ...

A new batch of annual reports show the true impact of the financial crisis on university bottom lines, writes Ben Power.cember, 2008. Easson also noted that in the first quarter to March 2009, core revenue rose solidly from $356 million ...

UK’s top five unis should go privatege, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and University College London – had an extraordinary “potential to earn income for Britain”. Vice-chancellors sign sustainability agreement The members of Universitas 21, the network of 21 ...

You can tell a lot about the culture of philanthropy by the names on the buildings, says Simon Haines. Chu, the new US energy secretary. Which is a significant connection: Hong Kong’s universities rely much more heavily than ours on, ...

Bradley joins editorial boardpan. He is chair of the University of Sydney USA Foundation. UB appoints PVC (research) Professor Frank Stagnitti, an environmental scientist and mathematician, has been appointed pro vice-chancellor (research) at the University of Ballarat. Stagnitti, currently of ...

Bookshelf - Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of Historyrom the Central Institute of Experimental Animals and Professor Hideyuki Okano of the Keio University School of Medicine. The team used viral DNA to integrate a new gene for green fluorescent ...