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The many challenges of globalisation and cross-border cooperation for higher education will be explored in a UNESCO-sponsored conference in Kula Lumpur in October.f London Sir Graeme Davies, secretary-general of the International Association of Universities Eva Egron-Polak, and vice-chancellor of Open ...

US postgraduate applications growing but slowing The rate of increase of international graduate applications to US universities slowed in 2009 for the third year in a row, to 4 per cent, following increases of 6 per cent in 2008, 9 ...

Inverted chromatin, not carrots, the key to night vision Nocturnal mammals such as mice, cats, deer and lemurs remodel the DNA within their eyes to turn photoreceptor cells into light-collecting lenses, according to an article by scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians University ...

Why cloud computing is the future of technology for the higher education sector. By Beverley Head. Forests have been felled analysing the federal government’s April announcement that it would work with private enterprise to create a company that will invest ...

Gloom boom for the brain06, the social networking service Twitter has grown to the point where it is the most used behind the well-established MySpace and Facebook. It differs from these in its immediacy – input is essentially a short ...

The next generation of professional librarians are enrolled in information management degrees. They need to be given the explosion in digital information, reports Jeremy Gilling. The information revolution has transformed the world of libraries. Books are still borrowed, though in ...

VET marketisation is back on the agenda, with the government’s key skills advisory body proposing a “managed market reform approach” to VET funding. And Skills Australia wants a single national regulatory body covering both VET and higher education. The proposals ...