TAFE is better suited to supporting the needs of first-generation and educationally ill-equipped students who will swamp universities if the higher education sector is to meet they key government target of 40 per cent of 24 to 35 year olds ...

Education Australia – the holding company which has a 50 per cent stake in IDP Education – last week announced it would pass on $43 million to its 38 university shareholders. Chair of Education Australia Professor Ian Young said the ...

International education has shown no signs of weakening, but remains overlooked by government, says Stephen Connelly. If Kochie* and Pottsie* think the GFC (global financial crisis) is over, it must be true. Admittedly, Pottsie finished seventh in a field of ...

Half of the trouble with the Ben O’Neill’s article ‘Another equity and diversity campaign’ (CR, 31.03.09) is that it is too bitter. He needs to read a bit more of his George Herbert: “Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes ...

Tanner quashes budget expectations Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has given the strongest warning yet that universities and research bodies shouldn’t expect a May budget splurge. The government now projects deficits totalling $100 billion over the next three years and that’s ...

It started modestly, with a handful of people working 18-hour days to ready a makeshift campus for the first intake of 70 students in 1999. But 10 years later, Curtin Sarawak is a fully fledged greenfields campus replete with modern ...

Stalagmites may show how fast ice is melting Researchers may be able to establish how fast the world’s ice sheets are melting by studying rare preserved stalagmites in a coastal cave in Italy. The stalagmites provide a timeline of sea ...

Hawkins to Tokyo Professor Gay Hawkins from UNSW’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has been given a visiting appointment at the University of Tokyo. Hawkins, a cultural studies expert in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, will ...

Visiting Taiwan for a conference, Simon Haines discovers the world’s true globalisers. Taiwan, like Hong Kong, is a small Chinese outrider, living on its wits and taking an anxious pride in its startling economic success and its tenuous political autonomy. ...