Education minister Julia Gillard’s vision for “cohesive” post-school education, outlined at this month’s Big Skills conference, goes most of the way towards realising the integrated tertiary education system recommended by Denise Bradley. Gillard said she’d work with the states and ...

Why is the concept of a regional national university such a hot potato, asks Julie Hare.t whether a single regional national university is the answer is far from clear. One Bradley recommendation was to look at the feasibility of establishing ...

In the lead-up to the May budget – and the government’s substantive responses to the Bradley and Cutler reviews – the NTEU held three public seminars in Canberra in two days, as well as launching its new workforce development program. ...

Preventing cyber-crime, improving nerve regeneration, strengthening poor communities’ economic prospects, managing pain in critically ill patients, studying the effects of smoke on wine country grapevines. They’re among the research topics of this year’s 23 Fulbright scholars. The 2009 Fulbright scholarships ...

Now’s a great time for Australian universities to expand because the likely contraction of other countries’ university systems will create rare recruitment opportunities, according to the director of the National Institute of Labour Studies at Flinders University. Professor Sue Richardson ...

Student representatives and the online activist group GetUp – a thorn in the Howard Government’s side in the lead-up to the last federal election – don’t think the Rudd Government’s response to voluntary student unionism (VSU) gives enough say to ...

VSU was an “outrageous intervention” in universities’ affairs, Universities Australia chair Professor Richard Larkins told the National Press Club earlier this month. But the federal government’s VSU response raises the intervention bar even higher, according to a Melbourne-based higher education ...

It started over breakfast and ended with his resignation. Why Toby Miller quit the University of California Press. I just resigned from the editorial committee of the University of California Press. Most university committees I have served on are boring. ...

Faster tertiary education reform needed in Spain, says OECD Spain’s tertiary system must accelerate the pace of reform to respond to the social and economic pressures facing the country, according to a review of tertiary education in Spain led by ...

A recent study only serves to highlight the need for more sensitive measures, say Carole Kayrooz and Michele Fleming. The University of Canberra, Australian National University and Macquarie University were recently named and shamed for having low proportions of low ...