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A decline in the monopoly on the provision of research and the awarding of degrees, and the competitive pressures of a demand-driven market were looming threats to the survival of non-viable Australian universities. Professor Paul Johnson, vice-chancellor of La Trobe ...

Australian university libraries have joined a worldwide coalition of library associations to press publishers of academic serials and other online content into restraining prices during the global economic crisis. The librarians have also foreshadowed tough retaliatory measures if publishers’ prices ...

Education minister Julia Gillard channelled Australia’s “equal but different” binary system of higher education when she responded to the Bradley panel’s recommendations for a more integrated tertiary sector. “Two systems, one shared vision: a stronger and fairer Australia,” she trumpeted ...

US universities consider ‘tuning’ their degrees Minnesota, Indiana and Utah have each received $US150,000 to examine a new way to evaluate college degrees that would focus more on skills learned than classes taken. The program, ‘Tuning USA’, is an initiative ...

TAFE is better suited to supporting the needs of first-generation and educationally ill-equipped students who will swamp universities if the higher education sector is to meet they key government target of 40 per cent of 24 to 35 year olds ...

Business education in Australia looks set for its second revolution as educators and industry seek to impart the lessons of climate change and financial meltdown, reports Jeremy Gilling. The Australian Treasury, derided by some for its narrow, conservative and orthodox ...

Garton appointed Sydney provost and DVC at UNSW, he began his career as a teaching fellow in the School of Humanities at Griffith University before returning to Sydney in 1988 to lecture in the Department of History. Over the next ...

It may not be the ideal meal ticket, but the arts degree is a pathway to many careers, reports Jeremy Gilling. Question: What do you say to an arts graduate? Answer: Yes, Prime Minister. UQ’s Deanne Gannaway, principal investigator and ...

Australia has only begun to take international student safety seriously because its immigration program is threatened by the economic crisis, according to a working paper from Monash University’s Faculty of Business and Economics. International education administrators believed until recently that ...

Student academic misconduct is a serious problem for higher education institutions. The quality of an institution’s awards relies on assessing the student’s academic performance, not their ability to cut and paste, collude, cheat or pay for essays. Misconduct – in ...