Rethinking approaches to international education, research and engagement, by Stephanie Fahey, Eugene Sebastian and Vanessa Carne-Cavagnaro. On 3 April this year across America, in between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, Apple launched its much-anticipated new tablet computer, the iPad. Bloggers ...
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University- industry collaboration on an unprecedented scale could change our understanding of disease – and the universe, writes Beverley Head. One decade ago in their book The Social Life of Information, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid noted that “corporate ...
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“Borderline” research misconduct on the rise
While it’s important to expose the headline cases of research fraud, education is also needed to rein in lesser cases. Marginally unethical research behaviour is on the rise, and the federal government’s new research integrity body won’t do much to ...
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While state governments have failed to adequately protect international students, they continue to live in a regulatory limbo that fails to given them equal human rights. State governments, particularly Victoria and NSW, have failed to act adequately to protect international ...
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Only a handful of researchers in only five institutions contribute the lion’s share of world-class research in the UK. Twenty-four years after the UK introduced its program of targeting research funding at excellence whereever it exists, a very small number ...
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A shift to more skilled migrants could leave little for local education and training providers, according to a top economic commentator. Migrants will become competitors more than customers of education and training institutions if the balance of skilled migration policy ...
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It’s all very well to wish for more postgraduate research students, but what do we know about those we’ve already got? The world needs a research agenda around widening its research agenda, a South Australia-based research expert told the Quality ...
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State governments, particularly Victoria and NSW, have failed to act adequately to protect international students in the wake of violent attacks that received worldwide attention, according to a leading researcher.t, especially at night; targeted policing of hot spots where violence ...
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Australia’s medical deans say enough is enough, and call for a temporary halt to new medical schools and the expansion of existing ones. In just a decade, Australia has added nine new medical schools, with the number of domestic medical ...
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