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While nurses and healthcare professionals frequently top the list of the most trusted professions, it is critical for universities to challenge the status quo of ethics education, says one ethicist. One would argue with the proposition that healthcare professionals ought ...

The University of Sydney is not the only institution announcing redundancies and budget cuts. Victoria University, La Trobe, Macquarie and the University of NSW have all announced or are expected to announce cuts. Greens education spokeswoman Senator Lee Rhiannon said the ...

Increasingly tight budgets mean that spending on technology will be constrained in the education sector over the next 12 months according to leading IT analyst Gartner. But from 2013-2015 the organisation expects a significant uptick, particularly spending on telecommunications and ...

Nicholas Saunders had to make big cuts to save Newcastle University but seven years later it is on firm ground, writes Jennifer Bennett. When Professor Nicholas Saunders arrived at the University of Newcastle in 2004 as its vice-chancellor, it was ...

There is evidence in current literature describing how institutions have, in many instances, been slow to adopt properly resourced and supported online teaching endeavours (eg: (DiPaola, Dorosh, & Brandt, 2004; Hannon, 2008), and how time poor teachers often feel resentful ...

‘What should the duty nurse do when a relative arrives unannounced in the ward with a bunch of papers for an elderly, frail patient to sign?” asks Nick O’Neill. This he says is just one of many familiar situations people ...

Educators focus on rise of India and China as international education map morphs.

Journal rankings. Those two words and their implications have conjured up a collective groan, at times an outright roar, from the higher education sector over the past few years. Not least amongst the complaints — the format of the rankings ...

A handbook on academic leadership with case studies from across the sector is being produced by a team of high-profile academics with the help of a $219,000 grant. The handbook is a capstone project, drawing together lessons from all the ...

Research into the history of education is in decline at Australian universities, with serious ramifications on the quality of education policy, says the winner of the highest award conferred by the Australian College of Educators.  Dr Brian Croke, director of ...