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Browne review has given UK universities an idea of the scale of cuts to their teaching budgets, but research remains the big unknown, writes John Ross. At the end of 2008, Denise Bradley handed over her recipe for higher education ...

UK observers give little hope to a student-backed proposal for tuition fees to be deferred writes John Ross A report from the UK’s independent review of higher education funding and student finance, which has been spearheaded by former BP boss ...

Paying businesses to provide for their own future isn’t doing anybody any favours. Employers have become welfare-dependent, with many no longer prepared to conduct on-the-job training unless they get handouts from the state, an industrial relations expert told last month’s ...

This week’s Browne review poses dangers for students. But it’s also treacherous territory for Britain’s new coalition government, writes John Ross. Next week, British higher education finds out just how much money it’s going to lose over the next few ...

John Ross discovers there could be spin-offs for Australian Education from this armada Spain’s World Cup football campaign, according to the commentators, was constructed around the “third party” strategy. Other teams raced down the right or left wing and looked ...

A massive Spanish infrastructure company is preparing to move its research and development efforts offshore for the first time – to Adelaide – as part of a 2009 deal to build the city’s desalination plant.i>. “I don’t know whether this ...

Relaxing the eligibility rules for apprentices may just be enough to get the VET community on side with the Victorian government’s skills reforms. Apprentices will be exempted from Victoria’s controversial ‘up-skilling’ eligibility requirement for government-funded training places - for the ...

British universities may be forced to cull international student numbers. And if so, they’ll have to knock off the profitable ones, writes John Ross. About ten years ago I went to England with my Spanish girlfriend, who spoke little English ...

If THE wanted to differentiate itself from QS, it succeeded. But volatility isn’t enhancing the credibility of global rankings. Universities could start treating global rankings with the sort of caution with which politicians approach polls – resisting a song and ...

The cleaving of the education ministries may have public servants nervous that the same thing could happen to them. But this could be good news for vocational training. Commonwealth public servants are waiting to find out whether the reshuffled education ...