The next wave of change in further education will be fast and incredibly disruptive. It will happen when education meets social networking and it will be exciting as well as scary, the vice-chancellor of Britain’s Open University (OU), Martin Bean, told ...

Australia’s dominant political parties are in a “race to the bottom” when it comes to funding the higher education sector, which needs to start publicising its importance to society – and the economy, a conference in Sydney has heard. Vicki Thomson, ...