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ACT education minister Andrew Barr has said he will consider splitting the territory’s senior colleges into academic and vocational streams - similar to that in Tasmania. News of the plan came as a bitter dispute in Tasmania threatens to disrupt ...

Just six years from now, the Victorian higher education system could look very different. Along with a mix of comprehensive and dual sector universities, TAFEs would have more higher education qualifications on offer and there may also be a polytechnic ...

International students’ proficiency in English will not automatically improve over the course of their studies. But access to regular non-academic social interactions could be the key to unlocking dramatic improvements in both academic and informal language skills. And while most ...

The University of Ballarat is at risk of not satisfying its requirements under the national protocols, according to its Australian Universities Quality Agency audit released last week. AUQA found that the university would find it difficult to demonstrate it met ...

Monash University has secured an additional $6.5 million each year for 10 years under a federal government housing scheme, while Holmesglen TAFE will receive $870,000 a year. Monash and Holmesglen, both in Melbourne, were the only two educational institutions out ...

The University of Western Australia will appeal to the High Court in a landmark case involving the ownership of intellectual property developed by its researchers. However, a legal expert has warned that the university’s chances of securing a favourable decision ...

The federal government is to contribute $2 million to universities and non-government organisations for research projects to advance the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) principle in Asia and the Pacific. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said he had co-chaired a ministerial gathering ...

Four Victorian universities are in the early stages of a collaboration aimed at increasing participation among students from a particularly disadvantaged area of Melbourne. Melbourne University, RMIT, La Trobe University and Victoria University have been in discussions for almost a ...

The federal government has knocked back most of the recommendations from last year’s House of Representatives inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. The inquiry was commissioned by innovation minister Kim Carr in April last year, ...

Sudhir Venkatesh was a first-year PhD student in sociology, when he decided to take his research on life in the housing projects of Chicago to another level. Over the course of a decade, Venkatesh embedded himself in the lives of ...