Visa sub-classes for different educational sectors are counter-productive, according to the head of a Brisbane-based international education group. Australia must stop playing favourites with educational sectors in its treatment of would-be international students, a private college chief told a Melbourne ...

“Unexamined racial prejudice” is keeping indigenous Australians out of academic jobs, according to IHEAC’s chief. Australian universities are hideaways of “hegemonic racism” where merit-based human resources processes can be “systematically undermined by the unexamined prejudices of decision makers”, according to ...

Immigration officers have discretion to be mean, but not to be nice, according to the Knight review. The Knight review into the student visa program has floated the idea of giving officers from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) ...

The government has rewarded the powerful mining industry for failing to train its own people, according to an economist and skills expert. Just 10 months after the Labor government tried to slug the resource sector with a $12 billion super ...

High impact researchers in material sciences featured by international agency There are three scientists from Australian universities ranked amongst the top 100 materials scientists in terms of citation impact in the latest ScienceWatch.com report from Thomson Reuters. With 2011 being ...

The national VET regulator bill could face redrafting if the Senate accepts recommendations likely to emerge from a committee report today. The legislation to establish the national VET regulator (NVR) is listed as the first cab off the rank in ...

New chancellor restates commitment of to expanding western Sydney university Challenges facing the University of Western Sydney could intimidate the faint-hearted, Professor Peter Shergold AC said on Saturday at his installation as chancellor. He said UWS was the fastest-growing university ...

The University of Western Australia has appointed renowned oceans researcher Professor Carlos Duarte as Director of the Oceans Institute at UWA. Duarte is currently leading the Malaspina 2010 Expedition, a Spanish circumnavigation expedition that is sailing the world’s oceans to ...

Pre-eminent astrophysicist Professor Jeremy Mould has joined Swinburne University. A recipient of the prestigious Gruber Prize for Cosmology, Mould is a ‘Hi-Ci’ researcher, putting him in the world’s top 0.5 per cent of cited researchers in the astronomy and space ...

Griffith University has appointed Meredith Jackson as its Director of External Relations. Based at the University’s Gold Coast research campus, Jackson is charged with gaining greater recognition for the University’s teaching and research, particularly its results in the federal government’s ...