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The proportion of 15 to 19 year-old Australians who aren’t involved in employment, education or training is high by international standards, according to a new study for the Australian Social Inclusion Board. But the rate of disengaged 20 to 24 ...

Australia is producing quality PhD candidates across its 39 universities, no matter the perceived research strengths of individual institutions. Furthermore, arguments that research strength equates with excellence in research training are simplistic and narrow. Recent comments by ANU vice-chancellor Professor ...

In its latest effort to put links with India back on an even keel, the federal government is providing most of the money to establish a new centre which will research relations between the two countries – and straddle the ...

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 ...

There are some demonstrable truths about universities that old prejudices fail to recognise. If they did, there could be change for the good, writes Glenn Withers. Politicians and industry figures in the past have suggested that more competition and more ...

The head of a US program designed to attract top graduates from a range of disciplines into teaching in disadvantaged schools has defended the Australian version of the program against strident criticism from teacher groups. Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach ...

It's time for a comprehensive national strategy on international education, says Stephen Connelly. My first job as an English language teacher was in 1988 at a college in downtown Melbourne. Fresh out of a dip ed, I took the beginners’ ...

1956 --- Puzzle corner A television commentator during Wimbledon said that in men’s singles on grass, the server has such an advantage that if he’s down 15-40, he still has a 50 per cent chance of winning the game. Assuming ...

A coherent policy framework similar to that governing the health sector is necessary is Australia is to address rural and regional provision of higher education. Professor Paul Johnson, vice-chancellor of La Trobe University, recently told the AUCEA conference that there ...

Skills reform could cost Victorian TAFEs more than $50 million over the next three and a half years, primarily because of a quiet move to monthly funding arrangements, according to a confidential email circulated among senior officials in the state’s ...