New research throws light on the role of course materials in helping or hindering international students, says Jonathan Sibley.ge ability continue to generate comment in the popular and the academic press. Most universities provide some form of learning support for ...

Managerialism is rife. But now is the time to rebel, says Joseph Gora. About eighteen months ago a newly appointed campus manager with a penchant for order and tidiness directed academic members of my department to move offices – from ...

We can’t redress social inequality in higher education without doing something about it in VET, says Leesa Wheelahan. Many assume that pathways from vocational education and training to higher education increase access to university for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. ...

Properly funded, the recommendations in the Bradley and Cutler reviews on could transform the Australian research climate, write Peter Høj and Caroline McMillen. Faced with the stark reality of the global financial crisis, there is no more urgent task for ...

International experience shows that research excellence is more likely to flourish in large, properly funded concentrations, yet the Bradley review struggles to come to terms with this, says Vin Massaro. The recommendations in the Bradley report on the development of ...

John Mullarvey made an enormous contribution to higher education policy and direction. By Gerard Sutton. For me it all started 20 years ago when a youngish Frank Hambly appointed a young John Mullarvey to the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC), now ...

To achieve advances in indigenous student equity, universities must focus on what actually works, says Marcia Devlin. There is a need for a new paradigm for research and practice in indigenous higher education student equity in Australia. A new focus ...

We must look beyond what works and engage with what equity means, says Trevor Gale. Student equity is a problem. Part of the problem is that Australian higher education is no longer a closed system. It is no longer the ...

The higher education review is a catalyst for the education revolution. It offers a blueprint for a progressive trajectory into a national educational system that could place Australia as a global leader in systems design for social inclusion. It is ...

May 1950-Feb 2009 “Not bad for a boy from the bush with no degree.” That’s how Bob Goddard, previous international director in the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee (AVCC) secretariat, summed up John Mullarvey’s early career in his eulogy. Already a ...