Do currently industrial arrangements mean that a unified tertiary education sector is merely a pipe dream? The evolving tertiary education landscape is being stymied and compromised by rigid and inappropriate industrial relations agreements which fail to recognise teaching done across ...

Bond University is a prime example of how diversity and quality can go hand in hand. With an entire student population less than the size of the average faculty in a large comprehensive public university, Bond University has been able ...

No one doubts the need to increase the number research students, but the crunch is: who’s going to teach them? As policy efforts to grow a domestic research workforce intensify, the federal government is yet to prioritise the obvious counterpart ...

Despite encouragement from successive governments, student mobility is woefully low. Participation in international student exchange programs is woefully low in Australia and may be contributing to a national propensity for insularity, researchers have warned in a new study. Published this ...

New requirements for visiting academics to be sponsored have stymied international research collaboration, a House of Representatives inquiry has heard. A “rigid and difficult” visa system is depriving Australia of international academics and higher degree research students, according to submissions ...

Fiscal rectitude isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But it beats rectal vicissitude. ABC local radio in Sydney is playing “lingo bingo” this election. An on-air bell rings every time a politician incants one of 30 clichés including “moving ...

BA MA DPhil (Oxon) Hon D Litt (Tas) Hon LL D (McGill, Melb) FASSA, Centenary Medal (11 September 1944 – 22 July 2010) intro Australian and UK higher education lost one of its true leaders last week with the death ...

There’s more danger than hope in this month’s election, according to the peak postgraduate body. There are two big dangers on August 21, according to the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA). One is that Labor could win the election, ...

The University of Melbourne has appointed two senior staff to help lead the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music. Associate Professor Su Baker has been appointed director of the VCA, and Professor Gary McPherson director of ...

Australian National University physicist Professor Ken Baldwin has been honoured for his research into precision measurement with the awarding of this year’s Barry Inglis Medal. The medal acknowledges achievement in measurement research and excellence in practical measurements in Australia.