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The UK’s new breed of higher education leaders are heading into a brave new world, writes Christina Slade. A couple of weeks ago, some of 18 budding leaders of higher education in the UK could be found building an igloo ...

Social media is throwing up challenges and opportunities for universities, write Beverly Head. When a pro-rape page established on Facebook by past and present University of Sydney students hit the headlines late last year, it threw into sharp relief the ...

Advancements in dental practice are posing educational challenges. Jeremy Gilling reports. Implant dentistry has transformed dental practice worldwide, says Nikos Mattheos. But the education system has a lot of catching up to do. While implant dentistry has been around for ...

Clinical teaching skills are highly transferable across health disciplines and learning contexts. But sensitivity is needed in delivering the message, writes Jeremy Gilling. When in the late 1990s clinicians in Perth were searching for someone to provide staff development for ...

A private Sydney college at the centre of a damning corruption inquiry is one of at least nine recently failed providers that registered with the Productivity Places Program. A private Sydney college at the centre of a damning corruption inquiry ...

Strong demand could help the government’s participation targets while simultaneously undermining equity targets. Strong demand for places leading to rising TERs, despite an expansion of the number of places on offer, could have the cumulative effect of undermining the government’s ...

Australian universities don’t even make the top 100 in the latest global rankings, which rate institutions according to their web presence. Australian universities may punch above their weight in global rankings such as the Times Higher Education-QS and Shanghai Jiao ...

Post-doctoral scientists are opting out of academia The age structure of the science academic workforce is in better shape than the academic workforce as a whole, but new research reveals a lot of young scientists seem uninterested in pursuing an ...

Julia Gillard’s graduates of 2025 are currently in pre-school. So what do universities need to bear in mind as they prepare for the next generation? The university graduates of 2025 are wearing Dora the Explorer t-shirts, make Lego houses and ...

A new qualification may be needed to help distinguish extremely high-level scholarship from ‘garden variety’ doctorates. Australia may need a new high-level doctorate qualification to help make sense of its crowded and confused PhD landscape, according to researchers from Southern ...