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The ALTC has built a new website to inspire more sustainability themes in higher ed curricula. The Australian and Learning Teaching Council (ALTC) shows no signs of slowing down its activities, today launching a new website for the sector about ...

Several Australian Learning and Teaching Council fellows have been interested in how emerging digital technologies can be used as tools for higher education. At a recent higher education conference, veteran ABC journalist Kerry O’Brien gave an eyewitness account of a ...

One of the first reports to make sense of the catastrophe facing Japan urges the country to reconsider nuclear power. Two Australian-based researchers are the lead authors of a well-received international report on the nuclear crisis threatening Japan. Adjunct Professor ...

Students want a bona fide review of student income support that doesn’t rule out fresh funds. An upcoming federal review into youth allowance has fired up the National Union of Students (NUS), which says the system needs more money - ...

An “extremely disappointed” ALTC board is determined to salvage the organisation’s work and make it available to the higher education sector. A new web site will live on after the demise of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), as ...

A new ALTC project will build leadership capacity in communities of practice. More than 350 academics in the growing communities of practice (CoP) space have signed on to a new project that will strengthen their impact on wider teaching and ...

ARC inundated with ERA feedback More than 6800 submissions have been made to the Australian Research Council (ARC) about its Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative since it opened a new round of feedback last month. An ARC spokesperson ...

A new national framework for assessing research is proving challenging to universities in the United Kingdom, too. Changes to national research assessment in the UK are causing jitters amongst English universities, with the concerns raised similar to those here regarding ...

Opposition spokesman on universities Brett Mason has hit the campus trail to show the coalition’s renewed dedication to higher education. The federal opposition says it wants a stronger relationship with universities — and is visiting every vice-chancellor in the land ...

The sector needs to overcome ‘tiredness’ about higher education goals for indigenous Australians, says UA chair Peter Coaldrake. Universities are “extremely challenged” by national higher education targets for indigenous Australians but need to redouble their efforts to meet them, says ...