RMIT is considering what legal action to take after it became embroiled in a scam which saw dozens of Singaporean students paying up to $16,000 each for degrees purporting to be from the university. Brooke’s Business School was offering one-year ...

Europe: indirect research costs stay at 60 per cent The European Commission has decided to retain a 60 per cent flat rate for the recovery of indirect research costs. The flat rate applies to universities participating in the 7th Framework ...

Climate change didn’t kill the giant kangaroo Neither climate change nor burning of the bush by Aboriginal people caused the extinction of the world’s largest ever hopping animal, according to a team of Australian and US researchers led by Dr ...

When tertiary students transfer from one educational sector to another, they’re typically seen as taking straightforward steps to upgrade their knowledge and job prospects. But “crazy paving” might be a better metaphor than stepping stones, according to a new report ...

This year there are nearly 2 per cent more Victorian school leavers enrolled in university, compared to 2008. But more of them deferred, too – 12 per cent of the state’s 2008 school graduates, compared to 11 per cent last ...

Web 2.0 technologies are rapidly changing how and where education takes place, says Beverley Head. First year students taking the principles of chemistry course at Deakin University have a discussion forum available to them where they can interact online. In ...

In 2008, an editorial in the British Medial Journal began with the sentence: “UK medical students tend to come from higher socioeconomic classes, perhaps not surprisingly, as social class correlates with intellectual ability.” The editorial, which referred to an article ...

The recent attacks on international students in Melbourne and Sydney have unleashed a global media storm. But the outcry may reflect an Indian predilection for protest more than a specific targeting of Indian students, according to an essay published this ...