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Victorian Police are to send a delegation to India to advise Melbourne-bound students on safety and security issues, after a spate of robberies and assaults. However, the superintendent in charge of Melbourne’s western suburbs where most of the attacks have ...

Six fake Australian medical journals produced by academic publishing giant Elsevier have undermined confidence in commercial publishers. Gavin Moodie, principal policy adviser at Griffith University and an expert on academic integrity, described the scandal as a “timely warning” to universities ...

Australian university libraries have joined a worldwide coalition of library associations to press publishers of academic serials and other online content into restraining prices during the global economic crisis. The librarians have also foreshadowed tough retaliatory measures if publishers’ prices ...

A study of 1400 students at Edith Cowan University has reinforced the importance of staff support in achieving student progress and retention. It follows the release two weeks ago of a national student engagement survey showing disturbingly low levels of ...

Completing an apprenticeship or traineeship delivers significant financial and employment advantages. New research from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research has found that recently completed apprentices and trainees who were employed full-time in 2008 earned 16 per cent more ...

The decision by the Federal Court in Melbourne to allow a student to offset education-related expenses against her Centrelink youth allowance for tax purposes could open the door for thousands of student assistance recipients nationwide, according to an ABC report. The court ...

Monash University academic Bob Birrell has pointed to dramatic increases in the number of overseas students enrolling in cooking, and the number who subsequently obtain permanent residence, as fresh evidence that the migration industry has “hijacked” a substantial part of ...

Concentration on the early years of development, coordination of programs across higher education and forceful messages about young indigenous people’s responsibility to their elders, families and communities – these are among the strategies recommended by indigenous education leaders to help ...

lthough skill shortages may not be grabbing the same level of attention as before the onset of the global financial crisis, policymakers worry that they will re-emerge – perhaps worse than before – as world economies recover. But one prominent ...

The NSW government and the Greens are at loggerheads over TAFE teachers’ pay and casualisation rates, with the education union standing somewhere in between. NSW Greens MP and education spokesperson John Kaye says “government cost-cutting is worsening the skills crisis ...