Student demand-driven funding is emerging as the most contentious of Denise Bradley’s broad reform proposals, with some commentators claiming the approach would hurt less established universities and wouldn’t be sufficiently responsive to workforce needs. But others say Bradley had no ...
More »A discriminating revolution: why VET and HE are divided
Education is about fairness,” then opposition leader Kevin Rudd told the Melbourne Education Research Institute in January last year, marking out a battleground in the forthcoming election. “Australia now needs an education revolution.” Upon which he launched a directions paper ...
More »Selected postgraduates gain income support
The list of masters by coursework programs whose students are able to apply for youth allowance and Austudy was extended last week. The new list adds 86 courses to the 312 approved last year. It now contains almost 400 masters ...
More »Navitas MD named entrepreneur of year
Rod Jones, the founding and managing director of global education services provider Navitas, has been named the 2008 Ernst & Young Australian Entrepreneur of the Year. Since Navitas’s establishment in 1994 and its subsequent listing on the ASX in 2004, ...
More »Ford appointed to national council
A female elder and senior lecturer with Charles Darwin University has been appointed to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Dr Payi-Linda Ford, a senior lecturer with CDU’s School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems, is ...
More »Curtin bolsters Muresk team with new appointment
Curtin University of Technology’s Muresk Institute has appointed Dr Roger Mandel as agronomy lecturer. Mandel joins Curtin from Charles Stuart University where he has previously taught agriculture and viticulture science and conducted research. He has had a long history in ...
More »New head of ACU National business school
ACU National has appointed Dr Brian D’Netto as the new national head of the School of Business. The appointment follows the completion of an external review of the university’s business and informatics program, which recommended it combine its three business ...
More »CRCs are for public good: new guidelines
Public good has been reinstated as a key objective of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program, under new guidelines revealed by innovation minister Kim Carr when he announced the latest CRC funding round late last month. Carr said the new-look ...
More »Population better educated
RSI and gammy wrists might well become a work-related injury as chancellors across the country shake hands with growing queues of graduates lining up to collect their degrees. New Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that the proportion of the ...
More »Age shall not weary them: ACU National staff loyal to the end
The commitment, loyalty and dedication of its staff is one of the great strengths of ACU National, but it is being undermined by under-evolved workforce planning which might leave the university in a demographic lurch in the not too distant ...
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