Academics – and particularly historians – must have stifled a laugh when they read Fred Hilmer’s prescription for a “brave new world” of university governance. (Campus Review, June 14). According to the UNSW vice-chancellor, modern university governance needs fewer elected ...

As the embryonic Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) takes form, the five standards domains – Provider, Qualifications, Teaching & Learning, Research and Information Standards – are currently works in progress. At this stage the Information Standards domain appears ...

One of the exciting and challenging ways in which New Zealand and Australia has changed over the past 50 or so years has been the explosive flowering of linguistic diversity in our communities. This change has been an uneasy one ...

  Here in New Zealand it has been the between-semester break for education institutions, not that educators get a break with the conference season in full swing. I get a sense that a mood for change is developing. New Zealand ...

Ethics and its essential twin subject epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, are at the heart of good journalism writes Edward Spence. Socrates was probably the first investigative journalist. He is also one of the greatest philosophers as relevant and inspiring ...

International Education might well have a much stronger brand were it an Australasian brand rather than two separate brands, both of them with their own issues. Since the early 1980s New Zealand and Australia have had a formal agreement to ...

  When it comes to increasing apprentice completion rates, pre-apprenticeship programs are not the silver bullet many assume them to be. Part of the appeal of pre-apprenticeships lies in giving a potential apprentice a realistic preview of what life in ...

In the world of DIY there are products which allow you to deal with gaps as they appear or even in new work to maintain those continuous lines and surfaces that lead to a quality finish. Continuity of progress is ...

Currently, there are something in the order of 17 war-like conflicts happening around the globe, with the latest bloodbaths occurring in Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Egypt. The actual number of ‘wars’ depends of course on what you mean by ...

Whilst we might be encouraging more and more students to consider a university pathway, to bring them to university, and set them up to fail is a poor outcome for everyone involved. By Keith McNaught. Fifty Years ago in Australia ...