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Australia-India discussions continue The India external affairs minister, Shashi Tharoor, visited Australia last week, claiming his government had no interest in allowing the crisis to “infect” relations between the countries. He said the crisis would die down only when attacks ...

Australia is producing quality PhD candidates across its 39 universities, no matter the perceived research strengths of individual institutions. Furthermore, arguments that research strength equates with excellence in research training are simplistic and narrow. Recent comments by ANU vice-chancellor Professor ...

The federal government’s infrastructure funding juggernaut rolled on last week with the launch of two more rounds of the Education Infrastructure Fund (EIF). Education minister Julia Gillard and innovation minister Kim Carr invited higher education institutions, research agencies and vocational ...

E-publishing has moved well beyond its first, halting steps as little more than an electronic page-turner. The new “born digital” generation of e-publishing is offering new possibilities for academic publishing. Both Melbourne University Press and Monash University ePress have recently ...

Ignore, adapt or fight? This is one of the questions university and TAFE administrators will need to confront if they want to clear some of the roadblocks between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education, according to a high-level ...

Doing away with copyright for academic publications would be “socially desirable” – so long as universities canned their expensive journal subscriptions and used the money to cover the costs of publication, according to Harvard Law School professor of law and ...

In its latest effort to put links with India back on an even keel, the federal government is providing most of the money to establish a new centre which will research relations between the two countries – and straddle the ...

Universities have implemented two of the ten points in Universities Australia’s action plan for student safety, and are making progress on the other eight, the peak body says. A progress report on UA’s website says all universities have now initiated ...

Overworked, overwrought and overrun by managerialism, Joseph Gora ponders the mental health of Australia’s academic workforce. The vexed issue of the casualisation of the academic workforce has been boiling away for many years. Now it seems things have come to ...

Arguments that Australia earns significantly less that $15 billion from international education conceal a hidden agenda, writes Alan Olsen. The current debate about the real value of international education to Australia is a trivial, and ultimately pointless, argument about whether ...