Cricket matches, Facebook and specially produced DVDs have all been drafted into frontline efforts aimed at ensuring the safety of international students in Melbourne, a conference will hear this week. Police and other experts working in the field say active, ...
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Only 26 per cent of doctoral graduates working in Australia are in higher education, providing the sector with a large pool of potential future staff, according to a new study into the academic profession. However, PhDs will be drawn back ...
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University heads are grimacing at the dawning likelihood that it will be second semester next year before the long-awaited student amenities fee can be levied. The delay will be a $100 million blow to the sector, which had been counting ...
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The widening scope of Youth Allowance has been broadly welcomed, but the sector’s peak lobby group says the Government needs to revisit the issue as soon as economic conditions improve. “It is a simple fact that income support for Australian ...
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