The Dali Lama was an unexpected voice in the furore around international student violence last week, telling the Indian media an entire country could not be labelled racist on the basis of a few incidents. “The attacks on Indian students ...

A telephone hotline, another taskforce and targeted audits of education providers are among immediate measures the government will take to protect the interests of international students. Under increased pressure to safeguard the welfare of international students – and the lucrative ...

Enterprise bargaining negotiations at the University of Western Sydney were temporarily suspended last week after the university sought to get a commitment from the academic union that it would not use a damaging report to promote its agenda. The report, ...

How can a professor of medicine claim 800 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed articles in his career when most research academics struggle to write five a year? This is the question posed by Sergio Sismondo in a recent issue of the ...

The feminisation of higher education is an international phenomenon. In almost every country in the OECD, more women than men attend universities. Now a new report from the UK has dug deeper, finding that women participate on an equal footing ...

Australian universities have made significant progress in teaching and learning over the course of the first round of audits conducted by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). But most institutions fell short of translating plans and policies into effective implementation ...

New university admission scores in NSW Students who sit the NSW Year 12 Higher School Certificate in 2009 will have their university admissions scores calculated under a new national scheme. The UAI will be replaced with the Australian Tertiary Admission ...

The government wants breadth and depth, but a seminar last week heard the means by which this will be achieved are unclear. By Kerri-Lee Harris. Universities greeted the federal budget announcements last month with uncharacteristic enthusiasm. Many celebrated major infrastructure ...

Japan, Hong Kong dominate regional rankings The first ranking of Asian higher education institutions by the British company QS, which also conducts global rankings for Times Higher Education, has revealed that Japan and Hong Kong lead the pack. Hong Kong has ...