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The AQF review is heading towards its final deadline as the battlelines rage on several fronts. Masters degrees continue to throw multiple spanners in the works for the Australian Qualifications Framework Council as it forges ahead with finalising a revised ...

The government is getting its higher education revolution at 30 to 40 per cent of cost, higher education experts say. Universities are pushing ahead to meet the government’s education revolution targets despite receiving only 30 to 40 per cent of ...

It meets the same rigorous standards as its mainstream academic counterparts, but its by students, for students. By Jeremy Gilling. The Australian Medical Student Journal is a standout in a crowded field. It’s Australia’s first peer-reviewed medical journal, and one ...

Some PhD and supervisor relationships are not perfect. And there might be incidences of bullying. But let’s get some perspective, writes Joseph Gora. Do I detect the whiff of hysteria in relation to the issue of bullying in higher education? ...

Sociology is a discipline beset by tensions as it struggles to define itself. Jeremy Gilling reports. In the 1970s sociology was described as having “an identity crisis before it had an identity”. That’s a lot of baggage. The tensions haven’t ...

The My University website is not unique – the Germans have been doing it for years. The federal government’s My University website is likely to emulating a German website that allows potential students to compare universities based on the subject, ...

The My University website is not unique – the Germans have been doing it for years. The federal government is considering emulating a German website that allows potential university students to compare universities based on subject, institution or city in ...

How will mission-based compacts help inspire radical reform in teaching and learning, asks Kerri-Lee Krause. Mission-based compacts represent one of three pillars in the federal government’s ambitious higher education reform agenda. A second is that of standards, to be monitored ...

A new qualification may be needed to help distinguish extremely high-level scholarship from ‘garden variety’ doctorates. Australia may need a new high-level doctorate qualification to help make sense of its crowded and confused PhD landscape, according to researchers from Southern ...

Understanding his students helped Raymond Lister understand his teaching. By Linda Belardi. For five years, Dr. Raymond Lister was consistently surprised by the high rate of failure in his first year computer programming course. Between a quarter and half of ...