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Silver lining in Senate delay: UA

Universities may have to wait beyond first semester next year before they can start charging the new services and amenities fee, with the enabling legislation still before the Senate. But the peak universities body believes that while the delay will ...

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International students safer than locals: stats

International students are substantially less likely than domestic Australians to die from accidents and violence, if recent newspaper reports highlighting deaths of foreign students are correct. Fairfax papers reported last Wednesday that at least 54 international students had died in ...

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New student safety strategy

Australian governments will develop a “comprehensive” international student strategy to improve international students’ experience of Australia “and benefit all of Australian society”, according to a communiqué issued after last week’s COAG meeting in Darwin. The strategy will address issues including ...

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Policy and beyond

The 2009 budget represents the starting point for discussion over a wide range of very complex policy questions, says Michael Gallagher. The 2009 budget provided an unexpected and serious investment that will position higher education well for the future. However, ...

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A global prospective

Universities are in a powerful position to promote and protect cultural diversity, writes Alan Robson. Many of the best universities in the world recognise that the education of all students is enhanced when teaching and learning is undertaken within a ...

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Have you finished your marking?

I once sat on an interview panel for a lecturer B position in criminology. The third candidate for the position was a young and highly energetic PhD graduate who, in adding a few final, desperate comments, uttered the memorable confession: ...

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Sophisticated, systematic evaluation

Are training providers interested in evaluating employer satisfaction beyond basic measures, asks John Mitchell. As of 1 July, and as part of the Australian Quality Training Framework, training providers are required to collect and use data on three quality indicators. ...

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VET briefs

Training supplement for Newstart recipients A temporary training supplement of $41.60 a fortnight is available from the start of this financial year to Newstart and parenting payment recipients without a Year 12 or equivalent qualification who undertake training at the ...

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Noticeboard

Griffith appoints sustainability expertnd where he was a professor of human security and sustainable enterprise and director of the transdisciplinary Applied Research Centre in Human Security. Iverson appointed to UOW The University of Wollongong has appointed Professor Don Iverson to ...

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