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The new UK minister with responsibility for universities is an undisputed intellectual, but more funding cuts seem inevitable. With an emergency budget to be delivered by the end of June, and projected government spending cuts this year alone of £6 ...

UWS has been fined for acting against their EBA and making a direct appointment. The University of Western Sydney has been fined $10,000 for failing to advertise a vacancy on its website and instead making a direct appointment. The Community ...

Adelaide is busy attracting high profile foreign universities, but they are being stymied in their attempts to fulfil their research mission. One of the world’s leading research intensive universities, University College London, can’t compete for Australian Research Council grants despite ...

The University of Melbourne launched three of its most high-profile degrees last week, but the name doesn’t match the qualification. What’s in a name? Quite a lot for three University of Melbourne which last week launched three doctors degrees, but ...

Twelve new teaching fellows enhance the university experience for local and international students Psychology is booming. In Australia, about 15 per cent of all university students take it as a first-year subject, and increasingly elect to take it in later ...

The Victorian government’s focus on families and health left little in the way of announcements for VET and higher education. The Victorian government tipped $91.2 million into the VET sector last week, including $32.3 million for a program to boost ...

The federal Opposition has given its first indication of its higher education policy if it wins government, and it all sounds pretty familiar. A Liberal government would reintroduce full fees for domestic students, restore the Education Investment Fund as a ...

Universities are witnessing massive growth in the number of administrative staff whose role is primarily to deal with red tape. In her inaugural speech to the higher education sector as the new minister for education in 2008, Julia Gillard spoke ...

International research powerhouse University College London is open for business in Adelaide and is already outperforming even its own predictions. University College London opened its first overseas campus in Adelaide last week with 13 students enrolled in a bespoke masters ...

While state governments have failed to adequately protect international students, they continue to live in a regulatory limbo that fails to given them equal human rights. State governments, particularly Victoria and NSW, have failed to act adequately to protect international ...