International students frequently feel like outsiders and institutions need to take greater steps to engage with them if they want to protect their mental health, a conference in Melbourne has been told. Professor Simon Marginson from the Centre for the ...

How to best prepare for a radically changing landscape was the topic delegates repeatedly returned to at an inaugural regional tertiary education conference held last week. With an uncapped student market looming, regional TAFEs and universities used the two-day Informa-run conference ...

Much needs to change in the way tertiary institutions manage students with mental illnesses – down to the language used in official communications and in disciplinary action, a conference in Melbourne has been told. Professor Spencer Zifcak, Allen Myers Chair ...

Within the cool confines of the Australian National University’s supercomputer laboratory, biostatistician Keith Dear couldn’t be further removed from the simplistic and bitterly polarised climate change debate. But, while Australia’s politicians, vested interest groups, advocates and sceptics bang heads over ...

Andrew Norton is known as a higher education researcher, but the most popular post on his blog Observations from Carlton’s Lone Classical Liberal has been about milk bars. “In the back streets of Carlton there was a little milk bar ...

The president of the ACE NSW, Dr Frederick Osman, said the award acknowledges an outstanding contribution by a journalist to the field of education. Education Review is the leading magazine for primary and secondary teachers and principals in Australia and ...

Student mobility between Australia and India requires quality assurance, mutual recognition of qualifications and credit transfers. And unless this mobility is in place there can be no collaboration, the Indian government has told a visiting higher education delegation from Australia. ...

A plan to arrest the decline of international education in Australia through the establishment of a joint government-industry body has been lauded by the Australian Council for Private Education and Training. The Hospitality Training Association has launched a report, The ...

A national review of higher education’s role in improving the lives of indigenous Australians is expected to kick off soon with a call for formal submissions.  Professor Larissa Behrendt, chair of the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for ...

The recommendation was contained in a report commissioned by the ACT government and conducted by Professor Denise Bradley and made public last week. There will now be an eight weeks public consultation process before the ACT government makes a decision. The ...