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Researchers have traditionally been the top guns in universities. But a new wave of teaching-intensive academics are challenging old notions. Julie Hare reports. Just one year out of her PhD and three years into her academic career, Kirsten Farrand has ...

<<<To throw the doors open to foreign providers is not necessarily a panacea for Indian higher education, warns Philip Altbach.>>> India’s new Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, has promised to open its higher education sector to foreign universities ...

What does the education revolution mean for educational research, asks Christine Halse. Now that the government’s budget and the accompanying white paper have put dollar figures to some of the education revolution rhetoric, it’s time to tackle the hard question: ...

Griffith appoints sustainability expertnd where he was a professor of human security and sustainable enterprise and director of the transdisciplinary Applied Research Centre in Human Security. Iverson appointed to UOW The University of Wollongong has appointed Professor Don Iverson to ...

Universities understand the importance of international education to their operations – and the risks to their bottom line if anything goes wrong. But while they have planning frameworks to manage these risks the plans aren’t necessarily effective, according to an ...

Just what is the impact of rankings systems on different national higher education systems is the question posed by a US think tank. Australia, along with Canada, Germany and Japan, are case studies in a paper released by the US-based ...

Internationalisation is all the current buzz, but are institutions prepared for what it entails, asks Erlenawati Sawir. The large-scale presence of international students has generated discussion on internationalisation for 15 years in Australia. But the topic is widely contested, and ...

The cold winds of recession are gusting over the manicured lawns and through the corridors of privilege, says Toby Miller. As I write these words, I’m sitting in a coffee house at one of our nation’s premier country clubs. Sorry, ...

Engineering students from Queensland and France will exchange campuses for part of their study, and emerge with dual qualifications. It’s a fairly common arrangement in many disciplines, but breaks new ground for engineering. UQ’s Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information ...

Mental health nursing requires specialist training 11 May 09 | Print this story | Send this story to a friend Academics and mental health nurses are pushing for specialist postgraduate training as the norm for nurses practising in this demanding area, reports Jeremy Gilling. ...