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In 2005, Professor Terry Evans stood up in front of a room full of professional doctorate students from Deakin University and delivered a presentation titled: ‘Why do a prof doc when you can do a PhD?’ It wasn’t tongue in ...

Efforts to improve the quality and rate of academic writing by doctoral students are “sporadic and ad hoc”. Furthermore, low publication rates have implications not only for individual careers but more broadly as universities are increasingly held accountable for the ...

If student choice is the new mantra, then Melbourne is a relative cornucopia. Monash is the latest to stake its claim in the diversity stakes, joining Melbourne, Victoria and Swinburne universities in major rethinks of how they structure and offer ...

Charles Darwin University’s gamble at taking a non-union agreement to a vote, was met with a resounding no when it went to a ballot. The result of the count was 599 no votes, 213 yes votes and 60 informal votes, ...

The divide between the haves and the have nots is widening, with Macquarie University the only non-Group of Eight university to make the top 200 list in the THE-QS World University Rankings. With the exception of ANU, which at 16 ...

At least five universities will pay management-initiated, non-union increases, ranging from 2.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent in 2009, while EBA negotiations across the sector stumble in a period of uncertainty in the lead-up to the Bradley review and ...

The recent Review of Export Policies and Programs has significant implications for the post-secondary education sector, even though none of its 73 recommendations specifically refer to it. However, with a central theme of expanding Australia’s productive potential while removing the ...

There are those who place a $2 each way bet once a year on the Melbourne Cup and others who lose the family home at the casino. But betting on the Nobel Prize – which plenty of online sites allow ...

There comes a time when an institution has to play the role of early adopter and encourage change in student behaviour. In the case of ePortfolios, only one Australian university – QUT – has stepped into the breach, offering each ...

Diversity is alive and well in the university sector and it’s most obvious in the pay scales of general staff. A new survey reveals that there is up to 17 per cent difference in the salaries on offer in Australian ...