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Though all cultures perceive contract cheating as wrong, nearly half of ESL students see plagiarism – a subtler form of cheating – as less problematic. They think universities make ‘too much of a fuss of people cheating’ in this manner. A fifth of ...

This article examines Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) levels 5-6 and the overlap between vocational education and training (VET) Diploma and above and higher education (HE) Sub-bachelor courses. It follows an earlier paper on the boundaries and connections between the VET ...

Undergraduate student attrition levels are relatively high in STEM programs. This recalls the famous unwritten quote: “The real challenge for a learning centre is making a gem out of a pebble, not necessarily making a jewel out of a gem.” ...

There was controversy before Campus Review's latest conference, 'Cash cows or human capital? Perspectives on international students in Australia', began. "The title of this conference is offensive to international students and to the staff who teach and look after them," ...

The son of a former state Liberal MP (his mother) and a past party vice-president (his father), Dan Tehan has politics in his veins. His rapid ascent – from local federal MP in 2010 to government front bencher in 2016 – ...

Declaring that higher education is a commodity and students are customers is no way to win friends in the education sector. But it is a debate worth having – and one that is regularly fuelled by none other than the ...

NYU medical students – current and future – will obtain their degrees for free. Announced last Thursday, the measure is designed to relieve students of "rising", burdensome study debt, and thereby, "attract the best and brightest students to careers in medicine". The university cited another ...

School's out for summer School's out forever For an increasing number of Australian high schoolers, Alice Cooper's lyrics resonate. They especially do so with 15-year-olds from lower SES backgrounds, according to a new ACER report. The report, based on PISA data, collated ...

Malala's bestie is everything you would think she would be. Oxford University student. Activist. Vlogger. Zimbabwean-born Varaidzo Kativhu aka Miss Varz, 20, from Birmingham in the UK is using her social media capital to try to increase diversity at her ...

The apparent battle for free speech being played out across our university campuses is difficult to navigate, with many competing viewpoints and intangible ideas at play. The so-called ‘chilling effect’ and other actions allegedly perpetrated by universities to stifle open ...