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Orientation week takes on a different feel in Hong Kong, writes Simon Haines. An annual ritual is taking place on our campus just now, as the new academic year approaches. It’s called orientation camp. You can’t miss it; there are ...

Philosophy is popular – very popular – and then reality hits, writes Jeremy Gilling. Philosophy is sexy. It must be given the 400 or so first-year students who cram into lecture theatres at Macquarie University each year. Such popularity is ...

Rethinking how we train the teachers of tomorrow. By Darragh O Keeffe. For some time now, there has been concern about the quality of teacher education courses. Wave after wave of reviews on the subject all end up pointing the ...

The federal government isn’t waiting for its latest review to wind up before it changes consumer protection legislation for overseas students. Last week, education minister Julia Gillard introduced a Bill to amend the Education Services for Overseas Students Act, just ...

The National Tertiary Education Union has had its national enterprise bargaining strategy exonerated by the national workplace relations tribunal, which says it does not amount to pattern bargaining. The decision by Fair Work Australia last week came about after the ...

The federal government remains “absolutely committed” to restoring campus services and amenities, according to youth minister Kate Ellis. And while her office won’t reveal how she plans to achieve this, in the wake of last week’s 34-all Senate rejection of ...

Australian academics rely heavily on the output of international scholarly publishers. Robin Derricourt recently encountered some troubling quandries of his North American counterparts. Even in hard times our American colleagues do it well. Meeting in the massive halls of the ...

Australian Education International, DEEWR’s international arm, has overlooked Australia’s second-largest, fastest growing and most sensitive international education market in the “market data snapshots” it produces on individual countries. AEI has produced 34 of the snapshots, designed to furnish stakeholders with ...