Australian research output has seen significant increases over the past decade despite an environment of funding austerity. Australia’s share of research publication output has been growing steadily for the past decade, rising from 2.85 per cent of global output in ...
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First-year students are better informed and better prepared for university life. The problem is, they are just not engaging in it. Picture this. It’s 2009. There are two first year students. They are highly organised, extremely busy, happy with their ...
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International medical students could miss out on their crucial internships after an agreement between federal and state health ministers refused to guarantee them places. The financial viability of Australia’s medical schools could be under threat if a government decision to ...
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Sydney University will closely emulate the Harvard structure with a massive College of Arts and Sciences alongside five professional schools, if one of the key structural reform ideas in its newly released green paper is adopted. The plan also suggests ...
More »A decade on, Bologna reforms take hold
After 10 years, the Bologna process is increasingly embedded in European Union and national policies, with major advances in the number of universities adopting the reforms, a new report has found. ‘Trends 2010’, released last week, is the third in ...
More »MIT comes up trumps in AUQA audit
A Melbourne-based private provider shows that quality begets success. The Melbourne Institute of Technology’s recent joint audit by the AUQA and VRQA is proof that in an industry that has been brought to its knees by crooks and shonks, there ...
More »Collaborative program off to ill-defined start
A program designed to get regional and research intensive universities working together is struck by a lack of definition. The federal government needs to first needs to define what a regional university is and what is meant by less research-intensive ...
More »My University’s German ancestry
The My University website is not unique – the Germans have been doing it for years. The federal government’s My University website is likely to emulating a German website that allows potential students to compare universities based on the subject, ...
More »Comparative website looks to overseas examples
The My University website is not unique – the Germans have been doing it for years. The federal government is considering emulating a German website that allows potential university students to compare universities based on subject, institution or city in ...
More »Collaborative program off to ill-defined start
A program designed to get regional and research-intensive universities working together is hitby a lack of definition. The federal government needs first to define what a regional university is and what is meant by less research-intensive before the nuts and ...
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