Southern Cross University estimates it will put $500 million into its local economies in 2012. Just two months into the job as vice-chancellor of the sprawling multi-campus Southern Cross University, Professor Peter Lee has commissioned and released a report that ...

Crommelin to lead Melbourne Law School Professor Michael Crommelin has been appointed as dean of the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne. Crommelin’s appointment follows the recent decision of the current dean Professor James Hathaway to return to ...

Simon Haines finds that Chinese and Latin share a crucial ethical concept. Now here’s a funny cross-cultural coincidence. We have an English word “pious”, which tends nowadays to mean excessively or irritatingly moralistic or religiose. Piety just isn’t a trendy ...

US international graduate recruitment stalls After four years of growth, international recruitment to US graduate schools has stalled, reports University World News. A survey by the Council of Graduate Schools, which represents 500 graduate institutions, shows that between 2008 and 2009 ...

The government must consider raising student contributions if it is to meet its key higher education targets and agenda. An increase in student contributions must be considered if universities are to meet the federal government’s participation targets and quality agenda ...

Research minister Kim Carr is says with some notable exceptions, interim compact negotiations are bordering on the bland. Research minister Kim Carr has hit out at universities, saying he wants mission-based compacts to promote radical reform, structural change and active ...

The government plans to push its income support Bill in the Senate early this week, in a last-ditch effort to get the reforms through Parliament this year. The federal government was last week ramping up preparations to push through its ...

There will be no dedicated funding for campus services next year, after the federal government pulled the plug on the proposed amenities fee loan scheme. Universities have no chance of accessing a dedicated funding stream for campus services next year, ...

The federal government has wound back $280 million in tertiary education spending through ‘symbolic’ policy changes. The federal government has quietly canned over $280 million in planned tertiary education spending in policy decisions taken since the May budget. The decisions, ...

Smaller, less competitive campuses may be the key to success for non-traditional student cohorts. Contrary to common perception, several factors associated with educational disadvantage such as mature age, low socioeconomic status and parenthood, may in fact contribute to success and ...