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Commentators say a training levy would not have improved low apprenticeship completion rates. And some aren’t convinced they are all that low anyway. By John Ross. The federal government was right to rule out an employer levy to help finance ...

Offshore student visa applications have returned to early 2000s levels, with the latest figures suggesting most new overseas students this year won’t be coming from overseas. By John Ross. When a human is starving to death, the body starts consuming ...

Delays, flood cuts and grey areas have frayed unis’ nerves over the government’s structural adjustment fund. In this article • No word on SAF applications • Sector nervous about flood cuts • EIF element adds to uncertainty • Applications extremely ...

Bureaucrats will never have ALTC’s ability to energise a community of activists willing to commit their own time to the collective improvement of teaching and learning writes Peter Goodyear Flood damage is insidious. Its effects can be far-reaching. The latest ...

Shutting down the council will be catastrophic for student experience and for innovative teaching projects which have long term benefits, writes Shirley Alexander Last week’s announcement that the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) would be axed sent shock waves ...

Universities need to lift their game on industry and community research, says the Victorian government’s tertiary education adviser. By John Ross. Universities need to develop five-year community engagement plans and to appoint senior executives with stand-alone responsibilities for "third stream" ...

A Perth meeting has heard it is good strategy to keep Australian-Indonesian lines of communication open. By Jeff Li and Annette Blackwell. Just as Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was proposing Australia halt aid to Indonesian educators, language experts were gathering ...

Executive remuneration a target in NTEU action against Newcastle. By Natasha Egan. The National Tertiary Education Union has forced the University of Newcastle to reveal executive salaries under NSW freedom of information legislation, and the union expects many more requests ...

In the UK there is a shift to judging published research on professional and policy impacts. Once institutional spinning slowed around the Excellence in Research Australia assessments, separate disciplines took a realistic look on how they fared and what it ...

Research needs to be driven by collaboration not competition writes Bruce Muirhead As an institution, universities have always existed as something of a paradox. Born out of the religious scholarly fervor of the Middle Ages, blooded among the humanist ideals ...