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When Shadow Treasurer Julie Bishop found herself in the middle of a media storm recently over plagiarised wording in a chapter for a book, her loyal chief of staff Murray Hansen jumped to her defence. He was the plagiariser. Mea ...

In just 30 years time, an additional 460,000 higher education places will be needed to meet demand, forcing dramatic changes to the shape, size and composition of the sector, according to the Group of Eight. Quality compromised for the sake ...

Aussies are great adventurers. Ask anyone. No matter which corner of the earth you find yourself, you are likely to cross paths with an Aussie backpacker. The converse is true when it comes to students’ choice of university. It’s common ...

Ian Chubb, agent provocateur of the higher education system, used his presentation at the National Press Club last Thursday to once again call for research funding to be concentrated in the country’s top universities and to stop spreading it too ...

Its focus might be local, but its reach is international. A new journal is striving to take full advantage of new technologies, hoping to engage a non-academic audience of community-engaged practitioners who have otherwise been largely excluded from the world ...

Demand for 2009 university places across Australia is up, with the biggest increases in Victoria at 6.5 per cent and NSW at 5.1 per cent. WA has increased demand of 4.3 per cent, while SA’s demand is up by 2.3 ...

  One city, two universities. Both are set to embark on redundancy programs, which will shed around 200 academic and general positions. One is being pilloried in the press and hammered by the union; the other is gliding through relatively ...

The trickle up theory – that an increasing number of women undertaking PhDs and entering academia would ultimately result in more in higher level positions – has not eventuated. And despite progressive and generous maternity leave provisions, universities are witnessing ...

Australia has the third-best university system in the world, after the US and UK. Or at least that is the claim of Quacquerelli Symonds, the company that runs the THE-QS international rankings of universities. After five years rating individual universities, ...

A total of 225 staff will be made redundant at Victoria University over the next six months in what has been described as “the largest proportionate redundancy program in Australian higher education history”. Savings of $27 million will be made ...