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Australia’s elite universities are all back in the top 100 in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. But the current threats to international student recruitment could also jeopardise the country’s rankings in the future. Australia maintained its third position ...

Cricket matches, Facebook and specially produced DVDs have all been drafted into frontline efforts aimed at ensuring the safety of international students in Melbourne, a conference will hear this week. Police and other experts working in the field say active, ...

Only 26 per cent of doctoral graduates working in Australia are in higher education, providing the sector with a large pool of potential future staff, according to a new study into the academic profession. However, PhDs will be drawn back ...

Skills Australia has called for a new approach to workforce development that restricts planning to occupations at high risk of market failure, and ensures that acquired skills end up getting used. In a discussion paper and supporting reports released last ...

The overhaul of Australia’s pathbreaking but ageing qualifications framework has moved into its second phase with the release of a refined consultation paper on a new architecture for the framework. But there’s a back to the future feel about the ...

Indigenous cultural competency in the post-Bradley era: who will do the work, ask Christine Asmar and Susan Page. The participants in our research seminar were perplexed. We had just asked them to put themselves in the shoes of an academic ...

If we are to power our ideas, we need to focus on the right game, write Peter Høj and Caroline McMillen. During the past few months, Australian universities have been working hard to support the delivery of the research and ...

<<<Judging from UK experience, the new research assessment system could prove to bring few benefits but a good deal of anxiety, damage and cost, writes Jeff Lewis.>>> While most researchers in Australia would welcome an effective and well-considered process of ...

Is VET useful for people newly arrived in Australia, asks John Mitchell. A concrete benefit of state and national awards for VET providers is that it sometimes highlights unconventional training providers that are modelling outstanding practice. One such organisation is ...

<<<Stepping up to boost the participation and achievement of low SES students in higher education. By Kaye Bowman.>>> What will it take to achieve the national target of 20 per cent of all Australian students in bachelor degree programs to ...