Young people use the same ‘moral compass’ to guide their behaviour online as they do offline, new research has found. Louise Durack reports. Young people are smarter and safer online than adults assume. Further, they could be a source of ...

The Gillard government has “glossed over” the latest figures on Australia’s international education earnings in an upbeat media release that fails to acknowledge a serious decline, says the International Education Association of Australia. Data released by the Department of Education, ...

Universities and governments are rejecting an analysis of investment outcomes for regional Australia, but that’s to be expected, says the Grattan Institute. The authors of a controversial report on the futility of spending billions of taxpayer dollars to boost regional ...

The boundaries are supposed to be blurring. But this year’s budget has prised VET further apart from higher education, and it’s part of a post-Bradley trend, writes John Ross Sydney Institute can trace its history back almost 180 years to ...

Universities shouldn’t feel threatened by the government’s reserve powers to limit student numbers. The federal government has reserved the right to cap its ‘uncapped’ higher education system, with the bill for the new demand-driven system giving the tertiary education minister ...

Seumas Phelan writes about the book that launched a thousand and more PhDs. There are some people who believe James Joyce’s masterpiece Finnegans Wake is the greatest literary work of the modern age. There are some who say it’s a ...

A bold proposal for a new medical school intended to help solve acute rural doctor shortages has met with strong objection from students, doctors and academics who say the existing system is in crisis. Annabel McGilvray reports. When Emeritus Professor ...

A report from the NSW auditor-general shows that although leave balances are reducing in universities there is still a big backlog of accumulated long-service leave that could cause problems. Managing excessive annual and long service leave balances compounded by an ...

We do not confuse quality with elitism, Swinburne’s new vice-chancellor tells Susan Woodward Professor Linda Kristjanson is more than aware of the challenges facing the Australian higher education sphere. There are domestic and international student cohorts to balance, future plans ...

Victorian universities saw their surplus fall 5.6 per cent in 2010 but the state’s tertiary education sector is still in good shape. Cash flow among Victorian universities dropped 5.6 per cent in 2010, despite increased revenues from student fees and ...