All five Sydney-based universities have expressed concern about an international student organisation whose principal representative has made persistent approaches to senior executives as it tries to get a foothold in the post-VSU environment. Senior university staff have reported having had ...

A third of Australian and New Zealand undergraduates “seriously consider” leaving their universities before they finish their courses. And that doesn’t include those who’ve already left, according to the latest study on student engagement. Last year’s Australasian Study of Student ...

Education minister Julia Gillard channelled Australia’s “equal but different” binary system of higher education when she responded to the Bradley panel’s recommendations for a more integrated tertiary sector. “Two systems, one shared vision: a stronger and fairer Australia,” she trumpeted ...

The Rudd government appears to be rethinking how compacts will operate ahead of the federal budget. Changes to fact sheets on the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research website promote compacts as a mechanism to achieve government policy objectives. ...

Federal government policy is driving rapid expansion of its revenue in international education. This is turn is resulting in universities failing to address static domestic participation rates and poor international research standings, Professor Simon Marginson told the second of five ...

Massive gain for a few years of pain. That’s the scenario for Australia if the government implements Bradley-style increases in university funding, according to ground-breaking economic modelling which predicts the average Australian would be 5.2 per cent better off by ...

Sustainability expert joins GriffithSciences at UNSW. A fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Muecke was most recently at the Free University of Berlin, where he held the position of visiting chair of Australian studies. Prior to that he ...

The many challenges of globalisation and cross-border cooperation for higher education will be explored in a UNESCO-sponsored conference in Kula Lumpur in October.f London Sir Graeme Davies, secretary-general of the International Association of Universities Eva Egron-Polak, and vice-chancellor of Open ...

US postgraduate applications growing but slowing The rate of increase of international graduate applications to US universities slowed in 2009 for the third year in a row, to 4 per cent, following increases of 6 per cent in 2008, 9 ...

Inverted chromatin, not carrots, the key to night vision Nocturnal mammals such as mice, cats, deer and lemurs remodel the DNA within their eyes to turn photoreceptor cells into light-collecting lenses, according to an article by scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians University ...