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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 ...

TAFEs should be able to collect a proportion of funding received by universities in exchange for teaching part of the courses on their behalf. This is just one possibility that could be considered in the new tertiary environment, a roundtable ...

The University of Melbourne will offer voluntary redundancies to up to 100 staff as part of an “economic response program” to plug the hole left by the university’s worst ever investment losses. Vice-chancellor Professor Glynn Davis last week said redundancies ...

The head of a US program designed to attract top graduates from a range of disciplines into teaching in disadvantaged schools has defended the Australian version of the program against strident criticism from teacher groups. Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach ...

Standards: are they objective, limiting or alarming? By Robin McTaggart. Despite the will of politicians, pedants and the public, academic standards cannot be objectively stated. It follows that any judgment of compliance with a standard cannot be objective either. Standards ...