Jan Thomas is the vice-chancellor of the University of Southern Queensland, based at its Toowoomba campus, and the chair of the Regional Universities Network (RUN), comprising Central Queensland University, Federation Universities Australia, Southern Cross University, University of New England, University ...

Collaboration is the beating heart of effective vocational education spaces, an architect has said. Mark Freeman, from specialist educational architecture firm Gray Puksand, recently completed a $5.1 million VET facility situated in Melbourne’s Somerville Secondary College. Freeman said he worked closely ...

Determining the local economic impact of international students in most areas of Australia is nigh impossible because the data is a mess, an expert argued. In a study soon to be published in the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, professor ...

If the peak body for group training organisations gets its way, the upcoming federal Budget will contain proposals to run all school-based apprenticeships through group training. Group training is an employment arrangement whereby a GTO recruits apprentices, and places them with host ...

A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel "ass-ets". Others got a meeting with their vice-chancellor, and some were questioning institutional thought leadership. It was all in a week's work ...

Deakin University’s Business School has emerged triumphant from a five-year bureaucratic gauntlet with an international accreditation that inducts it into the top 5 per cent of business faculties worldwide. The school has been stamped with and Association to Advance Collegiate ...

One-third of children nationwide don’t attend enough preschool, leaving one-fifth of children, many from the poorest backgrounds, developmentally unprepared for school – a new report has found. Quality Early Education for All: Fostering creative, entrepreneurial, resilient and capable learners by ...

The University of New South Wales’s Torch Innovation Precinct demonstrates how much of a mistake it would be for the federal government to carry on with predicted budget cuts and not invest in higher education, UNSW’s vice-chancellor has warned. Professor Ian Jacobs ...

A uni chief describes the bonus ATAR points scheme offered by the four West Australian public universities as a 'carrot' to incentivise senior high school students into taking harder maths subjects. The University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin ...

Deakin University researchers are examining happiness through the eyes of adolescents with autism. Wellbeing and autism researchers from Deakin's School of Psychology – led by professor Nicole Rinehart – said they hoped the results of this study would give a ...