Work underway to bridge the gap between the haves and have-nots The first broad-ranging social inclusion action plan to come out of an Australian university since the Bradley review prioritised the issue will be released in November. Swinburne University of ...

Postgrad Jobs are down but they are still higher than general population The global financial crisis has hurt postgraduate employment, with a new survey revealing the lowest rates for a decade in 2009. More than 47,000 postgraduates participated in last ...

Indian school principals will hold talks to heal Australia's reputation Australia has the chance to reset its reputation in the eyes of 10 influential Indian school principals who will travel here this month for meetings with the higher education sector. ...

Business masters from Australian universities ranked high by newspaper Five full-time Australian MBA programs are considered among the best in the world, according to The Economist’s 2010 ranking of the top 100, released this month. At number 46 globally, Melbourne ...

Relaxing the eligibility rules for apprentices may just be enough to get the VET community on side with the Victorian government’s skills reforms. Apprentices will be exempted from Victoria’s controversial ‘up-skilling’ eligibility requirement for government-funded training places - for the ...

Britain’s most prestigious prize in surgery – the Lister Medal – has been awarded to cochlear implant research pioneer, Professor Graeme Clark AC. He becomes only the third Australian to receive this honour in the medal’s 86-year history. Clark is ...

An internationally recognised anaesthetist has been appointed the inaugural Woolworths chair in Paediatric Anaesthesiology at The University of Western Australia. Professor Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg works in the UWA School of Medicine and Pharmacology and as a paediatric anaesthetist at Princess ...

Dr Andrew Stockley, a New Zealander currently based at Oxford University, has been appointed as Dean of Law at The University of Auckland. Since 2006 he has been the senior tutor of Brasenose College at Oxford, overseeing the academic staff ...

CQUniversity has appointed Professor Andy Bridges as the dean of Health and Human Services. Spending the past 20 years in the UK’s midland region, he has a psychology background and has worked as a researcher on projects investigating the applications ...

A leading expert in the development of new theories and models for construction project management, Professor Anil Sawhney joins the UTS School of Built Environment this semester. Formerly based in the USA, he was an associate professor at the Del ...