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<<<To throw the doors open to foreign providers is not necessarily a panacea for Indian higher education, warns Philip Altbach.>>> India’s new Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, has promised to open its higher education sector to foreign universities ...

It's time for a comprehensive national strategy on international education, says Stephen Connelly. My first job as an English language teacher was in 1988 at a college in downtown Melbourne. Fresh out of a dip ed, I took the beginners’ ...

Examining community cohesion in Arabic communities in Europe, Christina Slade gets some insights into research impact. Scholars around the world have been exercised with the problem of how to measure the impact of research. The question is particularly stark for ...

Like chocolate for waterel, from past to present, and from the battlefields to the archives, where he discovers a dark episode in Australian history that sits starkly at odds with the Anzac myth and legend. For Daley, the Beersheba of ...

1956 --- Puzzle corner A television commentator during Wimbledon said that in men’s singles on grass, the server has such an advantage that if he’s down 15-40, he still has a 50 per cent chance of winning the game. Assuming ...

The US says medical schools don’t always deliver the necessary scientific foundations, but the picture in Australia is more reassuring, reports Jeremy Gilling. Concerns have been voiced in the US about whether the medical education curriculum has sufficient scientific rigour ...

Ask a first year student why they chose veterinary science and, more than likely, they’ll tell you they love animals. “That gets them halfway there,” says Jon Hill. “But they need to be able to deal with people as skilfully ...

The $2 billion Productivity Places Program (PPP) is gaining momentum with Western Australian TAFEs, according to the chief of the state’s largest public training provider. Swan TAFE CEO Wayne Collyer told Campus Review he expected to enrol around 2500 PPP ...

Almost two thirds of international students from countries other than India have changed their perception of Australia as a study destination following media reports about attacks on international students, according to a recent survey by IDP Education. The ‘temperature check’ ...