Twitter is all the rage in some walks of life. Celebrities appear to have embraced it wholeheartedly, as was recently demonstrated by comedian Stephen Fry, who used the micro-blogging service to give minute-by-minute updates during an afternoon stuck in a ...

After many attempts, an approach of collaboration and partnership may help Australia strike the right balance in its relationship with its Pacific neighbours right, writes David Lowe. The challenges faced collectively by the nations in the Pacific region are perhaps ...

The Go8 has been slammed again for its equity record, but do the claims hold up under scrutiny, asks Ben O’Neill. The latest round of hand-wringing over alleged inequity in Australian universities, with smear terms thrown at elite institutions (CR, ...

Universities are still waiting for an indication of how the government intends to proceed with mission-based funding compacts. The time to reveal more is nigh, writes David Battersby. S ince first being proposed by the Labor Opposition in 2006, the ...

What would happen if we turned off automatic pilot and became more mindful, asks John Mitchell. It was one of those front page newspaper headlines senior public servants must dread. “$1 million junket to keep federal fat cats happy,” read ...

Queensland reshuffle Ferny Bay MP Geoff Wilson is Queensland’s new Minister for Education and Training, following a major shake-up of the state ministry in the wake of the election and the retirement of former education and arts minister Rod Welford. ...

Garton appointed Sydney provost and DVC at UNSW, he began his career as a teaching fellow in the School of Humanities at Griffith University before returning to Sydney in 1988 to lecture in the Department of History. Over the next ...

The Bologna model has not led to conformity in higher education and at least one institution is looking to the Melbourne model, writes Christina Slade. Last week I was discussing the options for undergraduate education with a colleague at City ...

Chapman advises Ireland on HECS Ireland, which is suffering badly from the global financial crisis, is set to reintroduce university student contributions and sharply rationalise the sector. Higher education fees were abolished in 1996, resulting in a dramatic surge in ...

Education providers have the wrong approach to fee pricing for international students, argues Rob Harris. It has always been a concern of mine that education providers view education marketing, as a subset of education, rather than what it is – ...