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US universities consider ‘tuning’ their degrees Minnesota, Indiana and Utah have each received $US150,000 to examine a new way to evaluate college degrees that would focus more on skills learned than classes taken. The program, ‘Tuning USA’, is an initiative ...

No resumption of Commercial Ready, says Carr The government won’t reinstate the Commercial Ready early stage technology development fund, innovation minister Kim Carr told the online publicationAustralian Life Scientist. “Many organisations have made representations to me about the program and ...

Tanner quashes budget expectations Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has given the strongest warning yet that universities and research bodies shouldn’t expect a May budget splurge. The government now projects deficits totalling $100 billion over the next three years and that’s ...

Social inclusion is very much on the radar of the University of Sydney’s vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence, writes Julie Hare. There a saying that vice-chancellors of Group of Eight universities like to drag out when describing their august institutions: elite ...

Will the excitement around green skills and sustainability move past the phase of popcorn popping? It was unusual to watch a friend of mine, a card-carrying member of the National Party, applaud the president of the ACTU. We were seated ...

What are young people’s labour market chances in the recession, asks Erica Smith. In early 2007, at the height of the economic boom, I presented a paper to a national workshop that was looking at youth transitions. The paper compared ...

Economic downturn affects US study abroad plans Applications to many overseas study programs this northern summer and autumn are down, and the economy may be to blame, according to a survey of study-abroad directors in US universities. More than half ...

lthough skill shortages may not be grabbing the same level of attention as before the onset of the global financial crisis, policymakers worry that they will re-emerge – perhaps worse than before – as world economies recover. But one prominent ...

Twitter is all the rage in some walks of life. Celebrities appear to have embraced it wholeheartedly, as was recently demonstrated by comedian Stephen Fry, who used the micro-blogging service to give minute-by-minute updates during an afternoon stuck in a ...

What would happen if we turned off automatic pilot and became more mindful, asks John Mitchell. It was one of those front page newspaper headlines senior public servants must dread. “$1 million junket to keep federal fat cats happy,” read ...