A free Australian cyber security course is helping students gain one of the industry’s most respected IT qualifications. More than 6500 students from around the world signed up for Charles Sturt University’s free cyber security course that could otherwise ...

  Leaders of the country’s most respected research academies and institutions are banding together to call for non-partisan support for long-term scientific research policy. By Aileen Macalintal When Nobel Laureate professor Brian Schmidt and the president of Association of Australian ...

  In the ongoing debate about whether massive open online courses (MOOCs) are the ‘game changer’ for universities, the consequences for the academic profession and university jobs are largely overlooked. By Jeannie Rea. The confluence of the massification of higher ...

Deakin University has joined the global movement of education providers offering free online courses to students with the launch of its first massive open online course or ‘MOOC’. By Antonia Maiolo The inaugural 12-week course on humanitarian emergencies will be ...

  Internal collaboration is the key to successfully implementing an internationalised vision. By Phil Honeywood Internationalisation in education has many dimensions. At its best it embraces student mobility, transnational education, internationalisation of the curriculum, academic exchange and extensive collaborative research ...

  Take fast broadband, cheap mobile devices, and digital environment together, and you get the perfect reason to launch MOOCs or massive open online courses. By Aileen Macalintal These free courses have been the universities’ way of adapting to today’s technology ...

The rise of massive open online courses has created wide mainstream interest in online higher education technologies. By Andrew Norton In its October 29, 2012 edition, Time magazine published a cover story on ‘reinventing college’, asking if online technology could ...

The University of South Australia is staging one of the biggest conversations about its future this month. The only difference is that conversation will take place online. On May 29-30, the university will launch a “unijam”, bringing together thousands of ...

Australia does well in world academic rankings but the success rate for researchers applying for grants is only about 20 per cent. The research sector is unsustainable, it is difficult to start a research career and when you are in ...

Cancer patients are set to get improved access to radiation therapy as Monash University leads a new program across Australian universities to be implemented by the middle of next year. The national program will help improve access to radiation treatments ...