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The federal government is under increased pressure to take strong and real action on concerns over the safety of international students, with China joining India in demanding better protection for its students in Australia. keep talking about money. Of course ...

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last week confirmed the importance of compacts to the higher education sector, saying they would help the government implement its reform agenda while making individual institutions transparent and accountable for the additional $2.2 billion funding they ...

India pushes for commonality among Commonwealth countriestation for the awarding of degrees. But student opposition is widespread and heated, with one campus occupation lasting several months. Hard times at British libraries Research libraries in the US are being pummelled by ...

If everyone buys a simulacrum of the education revolution, why should government bother to fund the real thing? By Simon Marginson. The dust has settled and the cheering has stopped. Once again Canberra has packaged a tertiary education budget with ...

The federal government’s Productivity Places Program (PPP) is geared towards funding an astronomical 711,000 training places over the next four years. But if you’ve been thinking this means 711,000 people, you’re sadly mistaken. According to the ‘National Partnership Agreement on ...

Does the higher education budget live up to the hype, asks John Ross. Reduce expectations, then over-deliver. It’s a good business strategy. And it’s good budget strategy too, if you happen to be in government. For the second year running, ...

The federal government will replace the Institutional Grants Scheme, establish a new “hubs and spokes” funding program and move towards covering universities’ indirect research costs, in a major revamp of university research funding. The reforms will shift the emphasis to ...

Teaching-only universities have become a non-issue. The Bradley panel settled that by lining up behind the research-teaching nexus. Universities should conduct research in the areas where they offer degrees, the panel found. But does that mean the research-teaching nexus has ...

Public universities which place a strong emphasis on academic, business and corporate governance are afforded the best prospects of long-term success, says Garry Carnegie. Organisations of all types require the achievement and maintenance of good or effective governance. Indeed, organisations ...

Philanthropic donations to universities have so far been relatively unaffected by the GFC, says Ben Power.nking it might just turn and around and hoping it is,” she said. Christopher Thorn, executive director of Goldman Sachs JBWere’s philanthropic services team, says ...