Tertiary education minister Christopher Evans will travel to India today, the latest in a series of attempts by the Australian government to mend the relationship between the two countries, which soured after a series of attacks on Indian students ...
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Heads in the cloud
With speculation about the death of the traditional laptop, mobile and cloud computing are undoubtedly the hottest topics in the world of information technology from the view point of industry and university IT departments alike. Mobility and personal devices made ...
More »Bond gets new vice-chancellor
UQ's Tim Brailsford talks about the challenges of moving from a public to a private university. Bond University is a “pretty special” place but does present its own challenges, says incoming vice-chancellor professor Tim Brailsford. Brailsford is currently the Frank ...
More »Science enrolments up but challenges still exist
Australia punches above its funding weight in science research Natasha Egan finds as she looks at faculties across the country are faring Science enrolments are up, not enough students are doing maths, there are challenges around student teacher ratios, all ...
More »Lecture theatres will have cafe-like spaces
Universities are rewriting the rules about what a teaching and learning space should look, feel and act like, writes Matthew Lynch The traditional institutional spaces that have dominated Australia’s landscape of higher education are being supplemented with a new spatial ...
More »The sociotechnology of survival
The older the habit, the harder it is to break, and in higher education, some habits go back 1000 years, writes Mark Ellis. When technology creates the capacity for everyone to be a learner at all times, rendering lecture theatres ...
More »UTS establishes Australia’s first chair of finance and superannuation
Professor Susan Thorp has been appointed to Australia’s first chair of finance and superannuation at the University of Technology Sydney's Business School. Thorp is a professor of finance and superannuation in the UTS Faculty of Business. Her research focuses on ...
More »Talks stall on fixed-term contracts
Industrial action at Macquarie University is under way as pay negotiations are delayed. By Natasha Egan. Students at Macquarie University face a quiet first week on campus as academic staff plan to stay away from classes after pay negotiations stalled. ...
More »UNSW says Go8 must have more women in top roles
An inaugural gender equality conference will hear how the nation’s most traditional universities must make room for more women leaders at the highest levels. And the message is coming from within the Go8. The University of New South Wales (UNSW) ...
More »Auditors praise Carnegie Mellon
While Carnegie Mellon has copped criticism for absorbing taxpayers’ money, the issue doesn’t rate a mention in the campus’s first national audit report. Five years after it opened its doors in Adelaide, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Australia has undergone its ...
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