Ignore, adapt or fight? This is one of the questions university and TAFE administrators will need to confront if they want to clear some of the roadblocks between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education, according to a high-level ...

Doing away with copyright for academic publications would be “socially desirable” – so long as universities canned their expensive journal subscriptions and used the money to cover the costs of publication, according to Harvard Law School professor of law and ...

In its latest effort to put links with India back on an even keel, the federal government is providing most of the money to establish a new centre which will research relations between the two countries – and straddle the ...

Universities have implemented two of the ten points in Universities Australia’s action plan for student safety, and are making progress on the other eight, the peak body says. A progress report on UA’s website says all universities have now initiated ...

Foreign degrees still hot in Singapore The overseas degree is still shiny in Singapore despite the recession, reports theStraits Times. Foreign universities with campuses there are seeing a healthy growth of applications from Singaporeans this year. The chief reason appears ...

(since to share the first deuce, he must win the first deuce point and lose the second, or vice versa) P(E4) = [2p(1-p)] 2p2 and so on. So we get: 0.5 = p2 [p2 + 2p(1-p)p2 + [2p(1-p)] 2p2 + ...

The key foreign students’ assurance scheme – responsible for finding new placements for international students if their private colleges go out of business – is in a healthy financial state, according to the organisation that manages it. The Sydney Morning ...

Universities should not be allowed to introduce new postgraduate research programs or expand existing ones without being able to demonstrate they have the research capacity to support those programs “to an acceptable quality”. Professor Ian Chubb, vice-chancellor of ANU, last ...

Researchers have traditionally been the top guns in universities. But a new wave of teaching-intensive academics are challenging old notions. Julie Hare reports. Just one year out of her PhD and three years into her academic career, Kirsten Farrand has ...