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Charles Darwin University last week joined Innovative Research Universities group, bringing back up to seven the number of institutions under its umbrella. Last year, Macquarie University, an original member of the group which formed in 2003, withdrew from the group, ...

$15m for Australia-Asia student exchange The Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong scholarship program has been extended for a further 10 years. The partnership between the Australian government and the Hong Kong-based company Cheung Kong Holdings will support international education exchange and ...

A national agency “with a presence in each state and territory” will take over regulation of vocational education and training (VET) and eventually higher education as well, under new recommendations from Skills Australia. But the jury’s still out on whether ...

Academic journals should show more sympathy for potential contributors by not requiring them to format their manuscripts before submission, according to a visiting French postdoctoral fellow with Sydney University’s School of Biological Sciences. François Brischoux from the Centre National de ...

The University of Canberra is to simplify its academic structure that could see early career academics promoted to associate professor in as little at five years. It is just one of a series of radical reforms under way at the ...

<<<In many ways, student equity is a numbers game. But Trevor Gale argues we need to develop new ways of understanding higher education if we are to develop a more sophisticated approach to equity.>>> Student equity in Australian higher education ...

The introduction of indigenous cultural competency across the curriculum will be a welcome step in the right direction, says Sandra Harding. Being confronted by the tragic reality of racism in Australia is not the normal fare of Universities Australia meetings. ...

Three conferences provide Toby Miller with unexpected insight. I’ve been to three contrasting conferences in the past month that seem to encapsulate the differences between being inside and outside the Beltway, as they say in DC when referring to access ...

Should VET teaching focus more on demonstrable competence or student potential, asks John Mitchell. A review is currently underway of the basic qualification in training and assessment for VET practitioners. The review presents an important opportunity for the sector to ...

Audit blitz hits dodgy colleges Forensic auditors could be used in the first major crackdown on corrupt training colleges for overseas students in Melbourne, reports The Age. The colleges are suspected of exploiting students, migration fraud and breaches of education ...