Staff and students love Tabor but some of its systems need tweaking, according to a new AUQA report. The beautiful medieval town of Tabor, south of Prague, was the fortified stronghold of the more extreme members of the dissident Christian ...

COAG might be scrambling to put together a strategy for international students. In the meantime, they’ve put together their own representation. Office bearers for a new international students’ peak body will be elected in Hobart this week, picking up the ...

If overseas students are an untapped tourism market, what about their friends and relatives? The contribution of international students to Australia’s tourism industry may have been underestimated, with indications that they could lure a million or more friends and family ...

A Chinese news organ’s criticisms of its home-grown universities could say more about geo-political positioning than student perceptions. China might be Australia’s biggest education export market, but many believe it’s going to be our biggest competitor. Commentators point to the ...

UniSA is to open a college proving that even the best equity performers area looking to increase their load. It’s not a coincidence that the National Centre for Equity in Higher Education is located at the University of South Australia. ...

Staff at UNSW are refusing to process exam results in a bid to hurry along enterprise bargaining. The impact of the UNSW results ban will start to be known from this week, with today marking the deadline for submission of ...

Victoria University has appointed Professor Peter Dawkins as its new vice-chancellor from January 2011, following the retirement of Professor Elizabeth Harman. Dawkins, an economist, was appointed director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University ...

Simon McKeon, executive director and chair of corporate finance at Macquarie Bank, has been appointed chair of the CSIRO board. McKeon has degrees in law and commerce from the University of Melbourne and prior to joining Macquarie, practised as a ...

Professor Frank Vanclay has been appointed professor of cultural geography at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Previously, he was professor of rural sociology in the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research at the University of Tasmania. Vanclay specialises in ...

AUQA has appointed Dr Iring Wasser as an audit director. Wasser has degrees in public administration and international politics, and a PhD in American studies. For the last 10 years, he has been the CEO of the accreditation agency for ...