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After months of complaints, Kim Carr has axed the controversial ERA journal rankings. Universities have welcomed an unexpected announcement by Research Minister Kim Carr to abolish journal rankings in future rounds of the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative. Carr ...

Minister gives go-ahead for expansion of TAFE tuition assurance scheme The TDA scheme has been restricted to TAFE institutes, and is open to the 25 members of the Council of Private Higher Education. Chief executive Martin Riordan said TDA had ...

The Gillard government has “glossed over” the latest figures on Australia’s international education earnings in an upbeat media release that fails to acknowledge a serious decline, says the International Education Association of Australia. Data released by the Department of Education, ...

Seumas Phelan writes about the book that launched a thousand and more PhDs. There are some people who believe James Joyce’s masterpiece Finnegans Wake is the greatest literary work of the modern age. There are some who say it’s a ...

The federal government has hosed down plans for a national training guarantee, even though the Victorian prototype appears to have led to increased participation. The federal government has gone cold on its plan to introduce a national student entitlement scheme ...

University researchers have uncovered what happened in the world’s oceans during a previous greenhouse period. The results don’t look good for our near future. Two university researchers have uncovered disturbing new data about the vulnerability of the world’s oceans to ...

The immigration minister has finally wound up a language testing anomaly suspected of discouraging international students. A potential impediment to international enrolments was removed last week when the immigration minister committed to broadening the range of language tests deemed acceptable ...

Universities were not providing the necessary data to satisfy the governments writes David Woodhouse. In response to Campus Review’s budget story that universities had foregone some indicator-based funding the executive director of AUQA explains why. When AUQA began operations in ...

The higher education sector has avoided the major federal budget cuts it anticipated. ‘Relief’ sums up higher education reaction to the federal budget, which spared universities the kind of cuts they feared were inevitable in tough economic times. The 3.8 ...

Overall universities with campuses in rural and regional areas welcomed the budget provisions which they saw as government honouring commitments made in the 2009 budget. Doubling of regional loading, $500 million in the next Education Investment Fund (EIF) round and ...