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December D-Day for the PPP?

The Productivity Places Program has a few staunch friends. It’s well-liked in private training circles, where it’s been a big help getting colleges through the financial crisis. And Julia Gillard’s office has issued regular media releases extolling the program’s latest ...

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A reforming frame of mind

Scott Bowman has a big job ahead of him. And he hasn’t been slow in getting to the task of change, writes Julie Hare. Scott Bowman is an optimist. Just a couple of weeks before taking up a five-year appointment ...

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Government responds to research report

The federal government has knocked back most of the recommendations from last year’s House of Representatives inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. The inquiry was commissioned by innovation minister Kim Carr in April last year, ...

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The lighter side of the dismal science

Economists are finding new, unusual and often weighty fields in which to ply their trade, writes Jeremy Gilling. Economics is emerging from its ghetto as the dismal science to apply its methods in all sorts of quirky, surprising ways to ...

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It’s a Nobel life

Picking Nobel laureates each year is notoriously difficult. And for those who fancy putting a bob each way, Thomson Reuters has released its list of 2009 Citation Laureates - researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honors. Each year, ...

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The business of specialisation

In a sign of confidence in the enduring health of the international student market, private higher education provider the International College of Management, Sydney this month introduced seven new degrees. With a ratio of 55 per cent domestic students to ...

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Briefs National

Indian student visa requests decline Fewer Indians are applying to study in Australia, immigration officials have admitted, in more worrying signs for the nation’s $15 billion international education industry. Department of Immigration official Peter Vardos told a Senate committee hearing ...

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Promoting inclusiveness

Internationalisation is about all students, not just international ones, writes Sophie Arkoudis. The experience of international students in Australia has received bad press recently. The spotlight has been firmly trained on a perceived lack of English language proficiency, matters of ...

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An the award goes to…

Having collected a couple of green stars in primary school, Joseph Gora understands the importance of peer recognition. When I was a snotty-nosed little upstart at primary school in the heady 60s, our assignments were graded by less-than-diligent teachers with ...

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A compact mission

Technology is has the power to change higher education, but only the brave will venture there, says Paul Duldig In the wake of the Bradley and Cutler reviews, a great deal of debate has taken place about government policy and ...

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