Consultation is a key theme in a 10-point “action agenda” released late last week by a coalition of six peak bodies, in an effort to strengthen international education and “resolve current short-term problems” in the industry. It will guide negotiations ...

It sounds a bit like the former Yugoslavia: one audit, one provider, nine colleges across seven religions (plus one interdenominational), six jurisdictions across two countries, and 13 awards across two sectors. On the evidence of the Australian Universities Quality Agency’s ...

Chubb, CSIRO ride high on best-paid list ANU vice-chancellor Professor Ian Chubb is the sixth-best-paid Commonwealth public servant, according to a list compiled by crikey.com. with a remuneration package of around $985,000 – miles ahead of the best-paid politician (Kevin ...

Universities once had clear ethical purposes but they’ve lost their moral direction, according to Macquarie University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz. “To fulfil our true purpose, universities need to get back on course: we need to re-moralise,” Schwartz announced at his inaugural ...

An academic has warned that universities are being overloaded with disparate tasks by policymakers who view education as a “cure-all” for problems in almost every realm. Ewart Keep, director of the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance at the ...

Grammy-winning producer heads QUT musices at RMIT RMIT University has appointed Professor David Hayward as the new dean of the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning. An economist and sociologist, Hayward comes to RMIT from Swinburne University, where ...

In a study that could be instructive for Australian universities, Israeli academics are torn by conflicting attitudes towards the marketing of their universities and their own roles in that marketing process. h; and to achieve that, we needed to develop ...

University marketers have been alert to social media as a key medium to get the message out. Ads in newspapers haven’t quite disappeared, but YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and, increasingly, Twitter are all now commonly integrated into the marketing mix.tin and ...

Orientation week takes on a different feel in Hong Kong, writes Simon Haines. An annual ritual is taking place on our campus just now, as the new academic year approaches. It’s called orientation camp. You can’t miss it; there are ...