One of the The University of the Sunshine Coast’s longest-serving academics, Professor Pam Dyer has announced her retirement. Dyer started as a lecturer at USC when it opened in 1996 and she progressed through the ranks to become Dean of ...

Dr John Shine, director of the Garvan Institute in Sydney, has received the $300,000 Prime Minister’s prize for science for his science – discoveries of key gene sequences that led to cloned medicines – and his research leadership. Other winners ...

Millions of dollars are being spent on India specific education initiatives International competitors are pouncing on the lucrative Indian student market, with delegations from Canada, the US and the UK descending on the subcontinent in the past two weeks. Observers ...

Human Rights Commission told ‘horrific’ stories of landlords asking for sexual favours as part of accommodation cost Allegations that female foreign students are trading sex for rent because of a shortage of safe and affordable accommodation have been brought to ...

Australian education has all but lost its privileged position in the new points test for skilled migration. The new points test for general skilled migration, released last week by immigration minister Chris Bowen, will shift the balance towards older migrants ...

Long engagement before vocational and higher education settle down together The relationship between vocational education and higher education will remain uncertain and contested for the next three to five years, multi-sector policy expert Gavin Moodie says. Moodie ‘set the scene’ ...

Gender back on the agenda Griffith University has scooped a major award for equal employment opportunity – the first university to do so – in the same week that the peak universities body launched a new strategy aimed at achieving ...

Within indigenous families there is a living memory of education as an instrument of disempowerment: Australia has no excuse not to provide indigenous children with the best education possible yet it still seems unable to do so, Professor Mick Dodson ...

Undergraduates not that easily persuaded to keep studying Academics who suggest to undergraduate students that postgraduate study is a viable option are not likely to significantly influence their students to consider a postgraduate degree, a study has found. The research ...

Research council accused of abandoning the agreed ranking with libraries academics A small humanities discipline has refuted recent claims by the Australian Research Council (ARC) that its new journal rankings enjoy broad academic consensus. Curtin University Associate Professor Kerry Smith, ...