Peer review of teaching may be what the government needs if it wants to measure quality of teaching. Peer review of teaching has emerged as a possible measure for teaching quality in the government’s indicator framework for higher education performance ...

With its focus restricted to funding, the federal government, via its discussion paper on regional loadings, has missed a timely opportunity to thoroughly examine higher education in rural and regional areas, according to experts in the field. Furthermore, the discussion ...

Targets can be easy if you’ve got momentum on your side. But they can be much harder if you’re fighting the headwinds created by other targets, writes <<<John Ross>>>. Some of the new tertiary education targets are starting to look ...

Japan is pushing its internationisation agenda by offering courses in English. Two years ago the Japanese government launched ‘Global 30’, a project aimed, inter alia, at increasing the number of international students studying in Japan to 300,000 by 2020. Last ...

CSU's distance education credentials come under fire in its recent AUQA report. Australia's largest provider of distance and flexible learning has been told to pull up its socks in the delivery of online learning, particularly in terms of staff commitment ...

Australia needs better research before it can put together a cogent response to the crisis in international education Strategies to deal with the crisis in international education are being developed in a research vacuum, according to two Melbourne experts on ...

Nobel winner collects nation’s top citizens’ honour her weighty list of accolades and titles. Blackburn, who co-discovered the telomerase enzyme that boosts a cancer cell’s ability to divide, has been appointed a Companion (AC) of the Order of Australia. Blackburn ...

The UK’s new breed of higher education leaders are heading into a brave new world, writes Christina Slade. A couple of weeks ago, some of 18 budding leaders of higher education in the UK could be found building an igloo ...

Social media is throwing up challenges and opportunities for universities, write Beverly Head. When a pro-rape page established on Facebook by past and present University of Sydney students hit the headlines late last year, it threw into sharp relief the ...

A private Sydney college at the centre of a damning corruption inquiry is one of at least nine recently failed providers that registered with the Productivity Places Program. A private Sydney college at the centre of a damning corruption inquiry ...