It’s been more than 20 years between drinks, but John Dawkins will command a key post in the new higher education revolution. Earlier this month the country’s education and training ministers decided to temporarily retain the services of the doomed ...

Dwindling school enrolments in the years ahead will impede progress toward the Bradley attainment target, new modelling suggests. The 13,000-strong spike in the number of undergraduate university places offered this year won’t be enough to achieve the Bradley higher education ...

The government’s plans for higher education system will barely cope with growing demographics, let alone growing participation rates. By John Ross. The federal government may have to rejig its plans for an expanded higher education system by uncapping student fees ...

Victoria’s recent state budget might have been underwhelming from a higher education perspective – by the southern state’s usual standards, anyway. But Victoria has redeemed itself with a $100 million-plus package for regional education & training. The Victorian government will ...

The University of New England is to adopt a trimester system from the beginning of 2012. Vice-chancellor Professor Jim Barber said the decision was motivated by the federal government’s uncapping of student places which meant it was “critical for the ...

Academic staff at the University of Western Sydney will receive an 18 per cent pay rise over four years under their enterprise agreement. The increase includes a 4 per cent administrative pay rise that was paid in April, 2009. In ...

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of Indian student Nitin Garg. The breakthrough came after a six-month long investigation, during which time police had been under great pressure to make headway in the investigation after 21-year-old Garg ...

John Dawkins has been appointed chair of the National Quality Council, which oversees quality assurance and ensures national consistency in the application of the Australian Quality Training Framework. Dawkins is a former education minister who revolutionised the Australian higher education ...

Dr Ross Smith, former St Kilda great and senior lecturer at Australian Catholic University (ACU), has been inducted into the AFL’s Hall of Fame in Melbourne. Smith was honoured for his contribution to the development and growth of AFL as ...

Swinburne University’s Professor Chris Berndt has been nominated vice-president of ASM International, a US-based society that represents 36,000 members in the materials science field worldwide. Berndt will be vice president from October for a year before becoming president in 2011-12. ...