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A study of 1400 students at Edith Cowan University has reinforced the importance of staff support in achieving student progress and retention. It follows the release two weeks ago of a national student engagement survey showing disturbingly low levels of ...

Australian university libraries have joined a worldwide coalition of library associations to press publishers of academic serials and other online content into restraining prices during the global economic crisis. The librarians have also foreshadowed tough retaliatory measures if publishers’ prices ...

On a quirky US website called Wisegeek, the tortured ritual of the performance review/appraisal/work plan (let’s call it the PR) is seen as a continuation of an assessment culture that occurs in high schools. “These early experiences of being graded ...

Is it possible for training providers to craft effective strategies amid the current economic turbulence, asks John Mitchell. Chief executives of training providers broadly agree that this is the most tumultuous period VET has ever experienced. Typically they point out ...

Australia won’t fix its skills system by simply throwing lots of money at it, according to an alliance of unions, business and specialist training organisations which has called for VET providers to be funded more realistically. The National Skills Policy ...

Applications open for VET infrastructure grants Applications from public sector and large community VET providers for funding under the $200 million Training Infrastructure Investment for Tomorrow (TIIT) program are now open. While consortia of industry and community bodies can be ...

Failing universities should be allowed to do precisely that – fail – or be taken over by the private sector, a UK think tank has argued. Policy Exchange argues that government has been too swift to redeem failing institutions by ...

Women language academics standing still English and foreign language departments in the US promote male associate professors to full professors on average at least a year more speedily than they promote women, according to a new study by the Modern ...

Australian researchers to undertake major HIV drug review UNSW researchers will conduct a major project to optimise the drugs used to treat HIV after receiving an $18 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The study is seen ...