A recent court decision may impact on the ability of public universities to engage in commercial activities and still retain their charitable status. By Dianne Sisak. “We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not halfway out ...

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – except in exceptional caseshing I studied, but if I was to speculate based on gender research in other projects, I would suggest that women are more relational beings and ...

The international student strategy started to take shape at last week’s inaugural meeting of the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment (MCTEE) in Brisbane. But details remain scant, with the meeting largely rubber-stamping decisions that had already been taken ...

The University of Ballarat is at risk of not satisfying its requirements under the national protocols, according to its Australian Universities Quality Agency audit released last week. AUQA found that the university would find it difficult to demonstrate it met ...

The employment security of highly educated people is almost immune to both recessions and economic booms, a new study by the Australian Treasury suggests. The study, based on data from six censuses between 1981 and 2006, shows that the labour ...

As the preferred pathway provider to the University of Technology, Sydney, Insearch is the first of the eight university-affiliated higher education pathway providers to be independently audited by AUQA. And after three years of change, “most notably an institutional renewal ...

Monash University has secured an additional $6.5 million each year for 10 years under a federal government housing scheme, while Holmesglen TAFE will receive $870,000 a year. Monash and Holmesglen, both in Melbourne, were the only two educational institutions out ...

The University of Western Australia will appeal to the High Court in a landmark case involving the ownership of intellectual property developed by its researchers. However, a legal expert has warned that the university’s chances of securing a favourable decision ...

The federal government is to contribute $2 million to universities and non-government organisations for research projects to advance the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) principle in Asia and the Pacific. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said he had co-chaired a ministerial gathering ...

Canadian cheaters to get a sub-F grade Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, has introduced a grade worse than F – FD for “failure with academic dishonesty” – to discourage cheaters. Rob Gordon, the university’s director of criminology, says that ...