Training in NSW would suffer if the state’s TAFE structure was broken up into autonomous institutions, according to the former federal shadow education minister and current chair of the TAFE Commission Board, Michael Lee. Lee, a rising Labor star before ...

Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behaviour, such as Sex in the City, compared with those who have tamer viewing tastes. Teens who watched the ...

Flinders University has appointed Diane Ranck as director, marketing and communications, and John White as director, human resources. Ranck will join the university on 1 December from the University of Sydney where she has spent nine years in senior managerial ...

Dr Antonio Buti, a senior law lecturer at the University of Western Australia, has won the non-fiction category of the West Australian Premier's Book Awards for his biography of Sir Ronald Wilson. The book Sir Ronald Wilson: a Matter of ...

Professor Simon Kaplan has been appointed the first executive dean of the new Faculty of Science and Technology at Queensland University of Technology. Kaplan joined QUT in 2004 as the Faculty of Information Technology executive dean. He began his academic ...

Associate Professor Ron Cox from UNSW has collected the Sir John Holland Award for Civil Engineer of the Year 2008. Cox is director of the Water Research Laboratory, one of the largest water and coastal research facilities in Australia. The ...

Last week’s decision by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission – which denied the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) permission to conduct a ballot of Victoria University staff – will also prevent the union from disrupting end-of-year exams at VU and ...

In just 30 years time, an additional 460,000 higher education places will be needed to meet demand, forcing dramatic changes to the shape, size and composition of the sector, according to the Group of Eight. Quality compromised for the sake ...

Aussies are great adventurers. Ask anyone. No matter which corner of the earth you find yourself, you are likely to cross paths with an Aussie backpacker. The converse is true when it comes to students’ choice of university. It’s common ...

Ian Chubb, agent provocateur of the higher education system, used his presentation at the National Press Club last Thursday to once again call for research funding to be concentrated in the country’s top universities and to stop spreading it too ...