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(since to share the first deuce, he must win the first deuce point and lose the second, or vice versa) P(E4) = [2p(1-p)] 2p2 and so on. So we get: 0.5 = p2 [p2 + 2p(1-p)p2 + [2p(1-p)] 2p2 + ...

The key foreign students’ assurance scheme – responsible for finding new placements for international students if their private colleges go out of business – is in a healthy financial state, according to the organisation that manages it. The Sydney Morning ...

Universities should not be allowed to introduce new postgraduate research programs or expand existing ones without being able to demonstrate they have the research capacity to support those programs “to an acceptable quality”. Professor Ian Chubb, vice-chancellor of ANU, last ...

Researchers have traditionally been the top guns in universities. But a new wave of teaching-intensive academics are challenging old notions. Julie Hare reports. Just one year out of her PhD and three years into her academic career, Kirsten Farrand has ...

There are some demonstrable truths about universities that old prejudices fail to recognise. If they did, there could be change for the good, writes Glenn Withers. Politicians and industry figures in the past have suggested that more competition and more ...

If TAFE is to contribute to meeting government targets for higher education, it needs support to develop academic, disciplinary and institutional cultures, says Leesa Wheelahan. Australia, like other Anglophone countries, is on the cusp of its third major expansion of ...

Go8 looks to India The Group of Eight is looking to open an office in New Delhi to help counter fallout from the Indian student debacle and escalate its presence in Asia. Professor Ian Chubb, vice-chancellor of ANU, told the ...

Australia’s indigenous population will grow to almost 850,000 by 2031 and 1 million by 2040, with the growth rate immune to indigenous affairs policy, according to a new study from the ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. But indigenous ...

International education needs better regulation, but what about opportunistic journalism, asks John Ross. Australia’s international education industry has problems. But in the parallel universe created by the media, they’re even worse. International education has been the big success story over ...