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Positive responses by the government to the key recommendations of the Cutler and Bradley reviews are of fundamental importance to the future economic, social and environmental sustainability of our country, says Richard Larkins. 2009 promises to be the most significant ...

An independent inquiry into governance at the University of New England has been discontinued before it even began. Last June former chief justice Sir Laurence Street was engaged to conduct the inquiry amid a volatile and vituperative relationship between vice-chancellor ...

With 17 recommendations, five affirmations and only three commendations, private higher education provider Raffles College of Design and Commerce emerged from its recent AUQA review licking a few wounds. The AUQA panel found the college, which delivers courses from certificate ...

Work integrated learning, once identified primarily with the vocational education and training sector, is now a central and mandatory component of many degrees. But its implementation more broadly is being hindered by difficulties in finding and funding work placements, according ...

Campus Review wins media award Campus Review was last week a winner in the inaugural Universities Australia higher education media award. Journalist Jeremy Gilling collected the award for the category of writing about teaching and learning. Luke Slattery, editor of ...

If Denise Bradley was worried what the federal government thought about her panel’s recommendations to reform higher education, she would have been reassured by education minister Julia Gillard’s speech at the Universities Australia (UA) higher education conference in Canberra last ...

Its wellbeing and security which dominate notions of global student mobility, not market-driven approaches, say Peter Kell and Gillian Vogl. There has been much discussion about the experience of international students in Australia and their overall welfare and safety. These ...

New research throws light on the role of course materials in helping or hindering international students, says Jonathan Sibley.ge ability continue to generate comment in the popular and the academic press. Most universities provide some form of learning support for ...

Managerialism is rife. But now is the time to rebel, says Joseph Gora. About eighteen months ago a newly appointed campus manager with a penchant for order and tidiness directed academic members of my department to move offices – from ...

Vocational education and training’s status as the poor relation of higher education is being directly challenged by the growth of new postgraduate qualifications offered by some TAFE institutes. The vocational graduate certificate and the vocational graduate diploma align under the ...