TAFE Victoria has joined forces with the peak body for private education providers in calling on the state government to commit to higher quality standards across all providers.  In the latest twist in the Victorian VET funding saga the two ...

Students should be the ultimate drivers of quality at universities, and have a right to demand better standards, former Liberal education minister Amanda Vanstone told the National Tertiary Education Union conference in Sydney last week. “Kids who go to uni ...

Higher education has a key role to play in dispelling illusions about Australia’s role in the Asian century, policy expert Simon Marginson says.  The illusions are that Australia is outside Asia and will remain largely unchanged over the coming decades.  ...

Scientists need to find new ways of communicating with the public and tackling ingrained beliefs if they want their work to impact on the world we live in, a senior American scientist says. Nina Fedoroff, president of the American Association for ...

Dr Caroline Perkins keeps a mental list of the “great initiatives” that help regional universities stay competitive with their metropolitan counterparts. On it are things like the Collaborative Research Networks program, the Structural Adjustment Fund, and regional loading.  So it’s little ...

White centrism means Australia’s tertiary education system is failing to capitalise on the work of indigenous staff and is missing out on much of what they have to offer, Professor Steve Larkin told a conference in Sydney. Larkin, pro vice-chancellor ...

A research network to overcome negative trends affecting women researchers has been launched. The women’s research network was launched at the University of Ballarat in regional Victoria last week, with one of Australia’s leading researchers on gender in higher education the ...

David Gonski and Denise Bradley need to talk. That might be the best way to sum up comments by university educators when asked for responses to Gonski’s landmark Review of Funding for Schooling. Released last week, the report contains the first ...

Australia’s regional and newer universities have been put at risk of extinction by the recently introduced demand driven funding system, a conference in Sydney has been told. Dr Jamie Doughney, a senior lecturer at Victoria University’s school of applied economics, told ...

Dean of the UTS Faculty of Law Professor Jill McKeough has been appointed by the Federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon as commissioner in charge of the Australian Law Reform Commission's (ALRC) Inquiry into Copyright Law. McKeough has published many articles and books ...