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John Mullarvey made an enormous contribution to higher education policy and direction. By Gerard Sutton. For me it all started 20 years ago when a youngish Frank Hambly appointed a young John Mullarvey to the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC), now ...

The Bradley review does not preserve the status quo, but encourages choice based on value not price, says Conor King. The Bradley review poses the government a challenge: if it does not substantially take up the recommendations, what does it ...

The University of Canberra is to axe 50 administrative positions and send the jobs offshore to India in a bid to save $8 million over four years. Vice-chancellor Stephen Parker told Campus Review, on 13 February the university council gave ...

The growth required to meet the Bradley review’s 40 per cent target: a comment on the Birrell-Edward paper by Conor King. The Bob Birrell and Daniel Edwards study of future growth in higher education (CR, 17.02.09) and its capacity to ...

The Cutler and Bradley reports have been designed to answer different questions. But they raise some questions about each other, writes John Ross. The Bradley and Cutler reviews were the two big ticket items in higher education last year, attracting ...

Australia may have reached the end of a decade-long trend of school leavers leaning towards jobs instead of education and training, according to preliminary 2009 undergraduate application data released this month by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations ...

Intro, intro intro etc says Peter Quiddington. While there are many good things contained in the Bradley review of higher education, it is not about to deliver a revolution that will reverse the declining fortunes of Australia’s intellectual assets. The ...

Having gone from Australian heatwave to London snowstorm, Christina Slade is finding her footing in new UK and European research funding climates. While Australians swelter to produce ARC grants, Europe is having a very cold winter. A colleague, attempting to ...

You can’t deregulate one side of a market and keep the other side in a straightjacket. That’s the essential argument of the vice-chancellors and academic commentators who say that if a voucher-style funding system is introduced, price caps need to ...

In this period of economic crisis, should the government abandon its encouragement of high level skills? And should it intervene more in VET? By John Mitchell. Anecdotally, many VET providers are experiencing significant increases in enrolments at the start of ...