To achieve advances in indigenous student equity, universities must focus on what actually works, says Marcia Devlin. There is a need for a new paradigm for research and practice in indigenous higher education student equity in Australia. A new focus ...

We must look beyond what works and engage with what equity means, says Trevor Gale. Student equity is a problem. Part of the problem is that Australian higher education is no longer a closed system. It is no longer the ...

The higher education review is a catalyst for the education revolution. It offers a blueprint for a progressive trajectory into a national educational system that could place Australia as a global leader in systems design for social inclusion. It is ...

May 1950-Feb 2009 “Not bad for a boy from the bush with no degree.” That’s how Bob Goddard, previous international director in the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee (AVCC) secretariat, summed up John Mullarvey’s early career in his eulogy. Already a ...

Can the private sector ready to step into the breach, asks Stephen Connelly. There has been a lot of discussion recently about the future of the international education in Australia, particularly in the context of the global economic downturn. Going ...

The Bradley review does not preserve the status quo, but encourages choice based on value not price, says Conor King. The Bradley review poses the government a challenge: if it does not substantially take up the recommendations, what does it ...

How far are VET policy makers willing to go in reviewing training packages? By John Mitchell. There is a growing unease among some VET analysts that the current review of training packages being conducted by the National Quality Council (NQC) ...

VET needs a good understanding of employability skills to build them into teaching and learning says, Kaye Bowman. As Larry Smith suggests, we need to develop and nurture a new understanding of generic competencies (CR,21.10.08). Employers would welcome this. They ...

Elkadi to head architecture and buildingh is in the field of the ecological physiology of vertebrates. Astheimer replaces Professor David Stokes, who will continue at Deakin on a consultancy basis. She will take up her appointment of 9 March. Story ...

As an English professor in a Chinese university, Simon Haines discovers first hand why bi-lingualism is a powerful tool. If you go down to the central district of Hong Kong Island on a Sunday morning you can barely move, even ...