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Many researchers don’t need a large grant to carry out their research, but the system drives them to apply nevertheless. By Tom Clark. I hate Australian Research Council grants. I don’t hate the ARC staff. I’ve only ever been impressed ...

Australian education could have as much to fear from a Chinese backlash as from the media focus on attacks against Indian students, according to international education experts. Educationalists believe Chinese enrolments may be just as precarious as those from India, ...

Confident, articulate and motivated by career certainty – these have long been perceived to be the defining characteristics of the average law student, leading many academics to believe they have the package of skills required to succeed at university. But ...

International students are substantially less likely than domestic Australians to die from accidents and violence, if recent newspaper reports highlighting deaths of foreign students are correct. Fairfax papers reported last Wednesday that at least 54 international students had died in ...

Universities are in a powerful position to promote and protect cultural diversity, writes Alan Robson. Many of the best universities in the world recognise that the education of all students is enhanced when teaching and learning is undertaken within a ...

I once sat on an interview panel for a lecturer B position in criminology. The third candidate for the position was a young and highly energetic PhD graduate who, in adding a few final, desperate comments, uttered the memorable confession: ...

Government claims that OECD data showed zero growth in expenditure on tertiary education under the Howard government are wrong. Equally, claims by the Opposition that OECD data failed to account for 75 per cent of VET spending under Howard is ...

Universities understand the importance of international education to their operations – and the risks to their bottom line if anything goes wrong. But while they have planning frameworks to manage these risks the plans aren’t necessarily effective, according to an ...

While Victorian police say attacks on Indian students are opportunistic crimes by hoodlums on the hunt for laptops and MP3s, commissioner Simon Overlander concedes there’s been a racist element to some of the incidents. But it’s far from clear whether ...

The recent attacks on international students in Melbourne and Sydney have unleashed a global media storm. But the outcry may reflect an Indian predilection for protest more than a specific targeting of Indian students, according to an essay published this ...