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Foreign applications to US graduate schools grow slowly The number of Chinese and Middle Eastern students applying for admission to US graduate programs surged while applications from India and South Korea fell, according to a survey by the Council of ...

James Cook University was a beneficiary after a massive cane toad hunt in northern Queensland. The university took possession of dozens of toads following the inaugural Toad Day Out hunt in late March. The biggest specimens were given to a ...

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Business education in Australia looks set for its second revolution as educators and industry seek to impart the lessons of climate change and financial meltdown, reports Jeremy Gilling. The Australian Treasury, derided by some for its narrow, conservative and orthodox ...

Private providers will swallow staff: Milbourne Universities will soon face an upsurge in local competition for academic staff, according to UTS vice-chancellor Professor Ross Milbourne. Milbourne told last month’s Australian higher education congress that the “gearing up” of the Chinese ...

Joseph Gora has some suggestions for converting the unread and the unreadable into something to behold. The unit information guide (UIG), or its simpler derivative, the unit guide, is a document imbued with great significance in the wacky world of ...

Australia punches well above its weight in sport by investing in sports we choose to excel at. Higher education should take a leaf from the sporting book. We cannot afford a system in which all universities are effectively comprehensive, says ...

Does the National Quality Council have the time and appetite for a thorough review of VET issues, asks John Mitchell. The VET sector is undertaking a major policy review, and anecdotal indications are that it won’t resolve all the issues. ...

PPP jobseeker completions reach 33,000 Almost 92,000 job seekers have enrolled in the $2 billion Productivity Places Program in just under 12 months, with 73,500 jobseekers commencing training and almost 33,000 completing training. NSW completions totalled 12,000, Victoria 10,700, Queensland ...

Economic downturn affects US study abroad plans Applications to many overseas study programs this northern summer and autumn are down, and the economy may be to blame, according to a survey of study-abroad directors in US universities. More than half ...