The humanities, arts and social sciences have tended to live in a parallel universe to that of innovation policy thinking and processes. But it is my view that the innovation framework gives the arts and humanities the best overarching opportunity ...

A charter that protects researchers’ rights to debate socially sensitive issues will encourage active discussion, says Kim Carr.   One of my first actions as Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research was to start work on charters confirming the ...

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 ...

While the higher education sector might be booming with its largesse of $13.7 billion from educational exports, there is another section of education doing it very tough. I am referring to the more than 30 per cent (on average, and ...

Peter Quiddington’s ‘Come together: an Asian Bologna?’ (CR, 18.11.08) makes interesting points about an overarching Asia-Pacific regime that can form the basis of a Bologna process, involving harmonisation of education standards and qualifications in the Asia-Pacific and the issue of ...

The universities of Bologna and Paris vie for the title of the oldest European university and Oxford University is the oldest in the English-speaking world. It has no precise foundation date, but teaching existed there in 1096 and developed apace ...

What will the new Obama regime mean for universities? I think the answer lies in this slogan: “Rednecks for Obama. Even we’ve had enough.” The New York Times reported that this sign was seen emblazoned on a Confederate flag before ...

Australia is failing to make significant and sincere connections with higher education in Asia, says Peter Quiddington.   How can universities best serve the national interest? If you put aside the self-serving rhetoric of some university leaders, that it is ...

Professor Ian Chubb enjoins government to stay on track and deliver compacts with teeth.   When the Jiao Tong rankings first came out five years ago, there were seven Chinese universities in the top 500. This year there are 18. ...

Governments, students, industry and now philanthropists and benefactors all fund universities. So just how far can diversity in contemporary university roles be explained by differing sources of revenue, asks Malcolm Gillies.     The current global crisis, as it spreads ...