A Perth meeting has heard it is good strategy to keep Australian-Indonesian lines of communication open. By Jeff Li and Annette Blackwell. Just as Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was proposing Australia halt aid to Indonesian educators, language experts were gathering ...

Executive remuneration a target in NTEU action against Newcastle. By Natasha Egan. The National Tertiary Education Union has forced the University of Newcastle to reveal executive salaries under NSW freedom of information legislation, and the union expects many more requests ...

Universities have largely accepted the nation’s first ERA report, but criticisms of its methodology persist. The first national assessment of research quality in Australian universities has not won the confidence of the very people it will affect most — university ...

Rushed legislation for the national VET regulator could end up entrenching past problems, the AEU believes. The federal government has missed a chance to repair loopholes in vocational training by rushing its legislation for the national VET regulator, says the ...

The nation’s first ERA report has been delivered. Exactly how it will influence university research funding is the next unknown. What impact will last week’s Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) report have on the various federal funding streams that support ...

English language courses are experiencing unprecedented popularity – on international TV, anyway. An English language program broadcast through the Asia-Pacific region was the second-most downloaded of any ABC TV program last year, attracting well over a million video podcasts. Australia ...

Ballarat is upgrading its relationship with its longest standing private partner, as it gears up for 2012. The University of Ballarat is taking one of its most significant long-term relationships to “the next level”, says vice-chancellor Professor David Battersby, by ...

New statistics on teenage study across the educational sectors reveal some interesting trends. Teenage higher education students began embracing the Bradley expansion agenda a few years before the federal government adopted it in 2009, according to new figures from the ...

In the UK there is a shift to judging published research on professional and policy impacts. Once institutional spinning slowed around the Excellence in Research Australia assessments, separate disciplines took a realistic look on how they fared and what it ...

Contemplators and reticents lurk among the e-collaborators research into online use in universities finds While Generation    may have embraced online social networking sites with gusto, a study has found university students are often reluctant to participate in university online learning ...