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Universities have implemented two of the ten points in Universities Australia’s action plan for student safety, and are making progress on the other eight, the peak body says. A progress report on UA’s website says all universities have now initiated ...

Overworked, overwrought and overrun by managerialism, Joseph Gora ponders the mental health of Australia’s academic workforce. The vexed issue of the casualisation of the academic workforce has been boiling away for many years. Now it seems things have come to ...

Paul Rodan agrees that journalists new to the international education have trouble grasping the realities of the sector. John Ross is spot-on about recent opportunistic journalism concerning international students (CR, 03.08.09). It must be galling for specialist journalists like him ...

Foreign degrees still hot in Singapore The overseas degree is still shiny in Singapore despite the recession, reports theStraits Times. Foreign universities with campuses there are seeing a healthy growth of applications from Singaporeans this year. The chief reason appears ...

International education needs better regulation, but what about opportunistic journalism, asks John Ross. Australia’s international education industry has problems. But in the parallel universe created by the media, they’re even worse. International education has been the big success story over ...

Rudd to create 20,000 green training places Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last week announced spending of $94 million to create 30,000 training places to develop “green skills” in the building and construction sectors, 10,000 places in a National Green Jobs ...

Apprentices and trainees in the trades are taken significantly less time to complete their training than a decade ago. But attrition rates are still running at nearly 50 per cent and haven’t budged despite massive federal government investments. So it’s ...

Hysterical reporting in the mainstream media fails to give a balanced view of international education in Australian universities, writes Alan Olsen. As an Australian living outside my country, with an elderly parent and a child in school there, I dread ...

The University of Canberra is to simplify its academic structure that could see early career academics promoted to associate professor in as little at five years. It is just one of a series of radical reforms under way at the ...

Three conferences provide Toby Miller with unexpected insight. I’ve been to three contrasting conferences in the past month that seem to encapsulate the differences between being inside and outside the Beltway, as they say in DC when referring to access ...