China's tertiary education sector is an expanding area attracting millions of dollars in government funding a year, and one which foreign partners should not shy away from taking part in.  That was the message of Professor Jeffrey Lehman, an American ...

Universities need to start thinking about what they will have to offer a child born today when she finishes high school in 2030 and consider how they will compete for her attention in a world completely upended by the information ...

The Australian Research Council chief executive Professor Margaret Sheil said she was delighted with the response to the call for nominations for the 2012 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluations.  Sheil said the 147 selected were experts in their ...

Students at a Southern Cross University campus are accusing the institution’s executive of heavy handed tactics in requesting the closure of an online student forum facilitating discussion of the student services amenities fee (SSAF). The student association says it was ...

Providers have welcomed TEQSA’s newly released regulatory risk framework as a good faith attempt, but remain concerned about any increase in administrative burden and the accurate interpretation of risk information. The regulatory risk framework released last week, sets out 46 indicators ...

Despite strong demand and new uncapped enrolments, many of Australia’s nursing and midwifery schools have limited their 2012 student intakes due to continuing clinical placement uncertainty. Students returned to campuses around the country last week and universities began to take stock ...

The European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, will visit Australia and New Zealand this week to meet with leaders in government, research and academia, to look at ways to expand and deepen collaboration on research and innovation. ...

The tertiary education sector is demanding that New South Wales and Victoria prepare a transparent cost-benefit analysis of equitable travel concessions for international students. The call comes in response to an Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) survey ...

In light of the advent of the new regulatory and quality regime that TEQSA heralds, Campus Review is running a series of articles by members of the Discipline Scholars Network under the banner Being TEQSA Ready. The Discipline Scholars’ Network ...

In the UK the proportion of doctoral students who find academic jobs is greater than the proportion with a definite aspiration to do so – except in the arts and humanities, a major survey of PhD students’ career aspirations have ...