A charter that protects researchers’ rights to debate socially sensitive issues will encourage active discussion, says Kim Carr.   One of my first actions as Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research was to start work on charters confirming the ...

Student academic misconduct is a serious problem for higher education institutions. The quality of an institution’s awards relies on assessing the student’s academic performance, not their ability to cut and paste, collude, cheat or pay for essays. Misconduct – in ...

While the higher education sector might be booming with its largesse of $13.7 billion from educational exports, there is another section of education doing it very tough. I am referring to the more than 30 per cent (on average, and ...

Making sense of data can be a survival skill. University administrators have to make accurate budget and planning decisions; they have to meet the expectations of students, researchers and academics; they have investment portfolios to manage; and must cope with ...

Southbank Institute of Technology in central Brisbane is restructuring its workforce, amid claims the newly corporatised institute has converted a $1 million-plus operating surplus into a $6 million deficit in just four months. The reports raise a question mark over ...

The most powerful industry connections are often the personal ones. By Anita Roberts.   The industry-led VET system has stirred many organisations and individuals to expend considerable energy working out how to talk to industry. AQTF quality indicators and standards ...

Imagine the benefits if training packages were simplified.   The recent OECD report on VET in Australia bluntly called for the replacement of training packages by much briefer statements of skill standards. It was alarming news for those who had ...

Arabesque your way to a PhD. Now that’s a concept, but last week Garvan Institute endocrinologist and PhD student Sue Lynn Lau won the graduate student category of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “Dance your PhD” contest. ...

It is 1839 and a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through long wet grass on an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre ...

This rather obscure word is in the spotlight with the Times Online campaign last September to save “endangered words”, ie, those due to be zapped from the next edition of the Collins Dictionary. Agrestic has never had a great following ...