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Globalisation and other pressures are bringing the study of international law increasingly to the fore. Universities are responding in kind, reports Jeremy Gilling. International law, once an underexplored and unappreciated minor specialisation in Australian law faculties, has emerged as a ...

Why cumbersome training packages need radical surgery not band-aids. By John Mitchell. New ideas are often destabilising and uncomfortable, so we humans tend to find ways to pay them lip service, while quietly continuing on with the old ways. Possibly ...

Dragonfly flying skills guide design of tiny aircraft The extraordinary flying skills of the dragonfly, which have interested the US army for some time, may now be the key for the design of micro-aircraft, according to ANU researchers. Dr Richard ...

UQ’s Centre for Education Innovation and Technology is forging a new road in e-learning and research, writes Beverley Head. The University of Queensland opened its Centre for Education Innovation and Technology late last year, in a move that that could ...

The future of Australia’s international education industry is hard to call – just like the global economy itself. But reports of its death are greatly exaggerated, writes John Ross. Australia’s international education industry is about to boom or bust, depending ...

Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley runs a watertight ship. The report from her higher education review has been arguably the most eagerly anticipated document to swamp the sector in two decades. But Bradley’s leak-proof outfit ensured that the speculation remained just ...

If there is one overarching theme of the Bradley review, it is more students in a higher quality system. These policy objectives have their tentacles in every corner of the 300-page report. Bradley’s target for 40 per cent of 25 ...

A nationally run vocational education and training system – widely considered as desirable, but politically unfeasible – is now on the cards, with the Bradley review panel calling for the federal government to assume full responsibility for regulating all post-school ...

Student demand-driven funding is emerging as the most contentious of Denise Bradley’s broad reform proposals, with some commentators claiming the approach would hurt less established universities and wouldn’t be sufficiently responsive to workforce needs. But others say Bradley had no ...

Education is about fairness,” then opposition leader Kevin Rudd told the Melbourne Education Research Institute in January last year, marking out a battleground in the forthcoming election. “Australia now needs an education revolution.” Upon which he launched a directions paper ...