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Australian researchers to undertake major HIV drug review UNSW researchers will conduct a major project to optimise the drugs used to treat HIV after receiving an $18 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The study is seen ...

Australian higher education and the world: has the Bradley report got it right, asks Simon Marginson. Are we optimising the global position of Australian higher education? International students are now 26 per cent of all Australian universities students, 20 per ...

We need more deeply understand the complexity of different student contexts and how they play out in modern, tertiary institutions, says Liz Harman. The government focus on students is welcome. In her speech at the Universities Australia Conference on 4 ...

Will improved broadband do more than simply let VET providers share larger files with their students, asks John Mitchell. The unexpected announcement that the federal government will invest $43 billion in rolling out a broadband network over the next eight ...

VET’s uniqueness of purposes seems to be getting lost in the current debate about a terntiary education sector, says Malcolm White. In my opinion, the current discussion about the roles of VET and higher education emanating from the Bradley review ...

Reflection is both a starting point and a tipping point for improving self-perception, and in turn, the nature and quality of vocational learning, says Larry Smith. During 2008, Berwyn Clayton from Victoria University and I interviewed a wide range of ...

Sustainability expert joins GriffithSciences at UNSW. A fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Muecke was most recently at the Free University of Berlin, where he held the position of visiting chair of Australian studies. Prior to that he ...

US postgraduate applications growing but slowing The rate of increase of international graduate applications to US universities slowed in 2009 for the third year in a row, to 4 per cent, following increases of 6 per cent in 2008, 9 ...