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Medical educators want standards to help weed out troubled students – before they turn into troubled doctors. By Susan Woodward. Educators are calling for a set of uniform national standards to govern the professional conduct of medical students. They say ...

The shelves in Australian universities’ new high-tech library, in Melbourne, could reach all the way to Geelong. It’s said the digital age is upon us, but for university libraries – ever-growing repositories of vast volumes of information – its arrival ...

Swinburne University is turning to an American education agency to help lessen the blow of a declining international student market. By Susan Woodward. The long-term prospects for Australia’s international student market still look good to at least one global recruiter ...

Tabor Adelaide has made great strides from its early days as a small Bible college, but has a way to go before it can handle university status. By Susan Woodward. National auditors have applauded a private Christian college’s open admissions ...

Australian academics are better off than their English-speaking peers. But this says more about the strength of the economy than the sector. Australian academics are the best paid of those who teach in six Commonwealth countries, a recent survey has ...

While Carnegie Mellon has copped criticism for absorbing taxpayers’ money, the issue doesn’t rate a mention in the campus’s first national audit report. Five years after it opened its doors in Adelaide, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Australia has undergone its ...

Brisbane power cuts are delaying notifications of offers to prospective students. Rising waters caused a special kind of havoc for Queensland universities last week. Power cuts at the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) in the Brisbane suburb of Milton – ...

Researchers ask Gillard for $140 million to seal US deal. Five Australian research universities will ask the federal government for $140 million to build a observatory that could help discover one of science’s holy grails. Led by the University of ...

It is recommended TEQSA exercise rigor, transparency and open judgment. A review of higher education state regulators, released by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), includes recommendations to pave the way for the agency’s replacement — the Tertiary Education Quality ...

Boredom and stress the main reason those who quit give for leaving university Fewer first-year undergraduates are thinking about dropping out, but those who do cite boredom and personal stress as the main reasons. That’s one of the main findings ...