A decline in the monopoly on the provision of research and the awarding of degrees, and the competitive pressures of a demand-driven market were looming threats to the survival of non-viable Australian universities. Professor Paul Johnson, vice-chancellor of La Trobe ...

The launch last month of the World Digital Library brings a dazzling collection of cultural treasures within everyone’s reach. These range from San rock paintings in South Africa dating back perhaps 6000 years to a photograph of Richard Nixon meeting ...

Bonus extended to postgraduates A one-off $950 Training and Learning Bonus payment will be extended to most postgraduate students. Under existing criteria [[Story code:15-230209]], many postgraduates were deemed ineligible because their taxable income, excluding their Australian Postgraduate Awards (APAs), was ...

A study of 1400 students at Edith Cowan University has reinforced the importance of staff support in achieving student progress and retention. It follows the release two weeks ago of a national student engagement survey showing disturbingly low levels of ...

Australian university libraries have joined a worldwide coalition of library associations to press publishers of academic serials and other online content into restraining prices during the global economic crisis. The librarians have also foreshadowed tough retaliatory measures if publishers’ prices ...

Failing universities should be allowed to do precisely that – fail – or be taken over by the private sector, a UK think tank has argued. Policy Exchange argues that government has been too swift to redeem failing institutions by ...

Women language academics standing still English and foreign language departments in the US promote male associate professors to full professors on average at least a year more speedily than they promote women, according to a new study by the Modern ...

Australian researchers to undertake major HIV drug review UNSW researchers will conduct a major project to optimise the drugs used to treat HIV after receiving an $18 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The study is seen ...