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 ...

Buoyed by the government’s six-month deferral of its changes to workforce eligibility criteria for youth allowance, the federal opposition now plans further amendments to the government’s income support reform Bill once it reaches the Senate. Education spokesperson Christopher Pyne said ...

Four Victorian universities are in the early stages of a collaboration aimed at increasing participation among students from a particularly disadvantaged area of Melbourne. Melbourne University, RMIT, La Trobe University and Victoria University have been in discussions for almost a ...

International education providers could be forced to enrol students from multiple countries under reforms being considered by the Review of the Education Services for Overseas Students Act. According to an issues paper released last week by review head Bruce Baird, ...

Inadequate regulation and compliance might be copping much of the blame for the problems in international education. But education and training still suffer from “excessive and duplicative reporting requirements”, according to a new report from the Productivity Commission. The sector ...

Scott Bowman has a big job ahead of him. And he hasn’t been slow in getting to the task of change, writes Julie Hare. Scott Bowman is an optimist. Just a couple of weeks before taking up a five-year appointment ...

The federal government has knocked back most of the recommendations from last year’s House of Representatives inquiry into research training and research workforce issues in Australian universities. The inquiry was commissioned by innovation minister Kim Carr in April last year, ...

Picking Nobel laureates each year is notoriously difficult. And for those who fancy putting a bob each way, Thomson Reuters has released its list of 2009 Citation Laureates - researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honors. Each year, ...

Indian student visa requests decline Fewer Indians are applying to study in Australia, immigration officials have admitted, in more worrying signs for the nation’s $15 billion international education industry. Department of Immigration official Peter Vardos told a Senate committee hearing ...

New dean of science for UNSW Professor Merlin Crossley has been appointed dean of science at UNSW. Crossley is currently professor of molecular genetics at the University of Sydney. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and following a post-doctoral period ...