Winthrop Professor Peter van Onselen has been appointed by the University of Western Australia to develop the university’s new Masters of International Journalism course. van Onselen was awarded his PhD in political science from UWA. He was an associateprofessor in ...

Universities Australia intercedes as the long fight for equitable employment of women in higher education's top jobs enters new territory. New interventions are under way to lift the number of female academics in the nation's universities as it becomes clear ...

TAFEs should enjoy the same funding arrangements as universities when they deliver higher education qualifications, experts believe - but they had better not hold their breath. Australia's elite universities and the federal government's skills advisory body believe the government should ...

The cultural and economic loss to the country of women quitting science and engineering careers affects every field from medicine to climate research to astronomy. A summit being held today in Canberra is exploring ways to keep the best female ...

As higher ed moves to a new quality assurance framework, the United Arab Emirates snaps up Australia's QA guru. Dr David Woodhouse has walked a thin line in Australian higher education. As founder and executive director of the nation's pre-eminent ...

QUT's vice-chancellor has told the English higher education funding council that public universities in the UK and Australia are likely to face more financial pressure and limited capacity to compensate for shortfalls. Universities need to bring their message to the ...

One of the sector's worst fears about the federal government's upcoming research workforce strategy seems well founded. The federal government's long-anticipated research workforce strategy will be released on April 19 - devoid of a funding commitment. Research and Innovation Minister ...

The ALTC has built a new website to inspire more sustainability themes in higher ed curricula. The Australian and Learning Teaching Council (ALTC) shows no signs of slowing down its activities, today launching a new website for the sector about ...

Students have backed the ACT's push for a concession card recognised by public transport operators throughout Australia. In what could become a back-door push to convince the two largest states to provide public transport concessions to international students, the ACT ...

In moves that could signal big changes to Australia's last major centralised TAFE system, the new O'Farrell government of NSW has dropped the term "training" from the name of a puffed-up education department and poached the architect of Victoria's market-based ...