The publication of data sets could swiftly become as important as publishing papers, thanks to a national initiative aimed at making data more easily accessed, shared and reused. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) will allow researchers to perform a ...

Online education will expand more than twice as quickly as any other industry in Australia over the next 12 months, according to a new report which predicts the country’s top 10 growth industries in 2009-10. Business information analysts IBISWorld say ...

The federal government has challenged recent Fairfax newspaper reports about international student deaths in Australia, claiming the figures quoted in the articles don’t tally with its own data. The 1 July reports in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, based on coronial ...

Private sector VET easily eclipsed all other educational sectors combined – including higher education, TAFE, schools, language training and enabling courses – in international enrolment growth last year, according to new data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research ...

The decision in April to award Holmesglen TAFE 40 publicly funded places to its controversial bachelor of nursing degree runs counter to the federal government’s student entitlement policy, according to a higher education policy expert. Gavin Moodie, senior policy advisor ...

If the phrase “punching about its weight” has a namesake in higher education, then it must be the University of Western Australia. “UWA is an excellent, high quality, well-managed university with a bold vision, a strategic objective to becoming a ...