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Walker to quit Deakin appointed deputy director with responsibility for education and Professor Andrew Leigh has been appointed deputy director with responsibility for research. New Curtin PVC for humanities Curtin University has appointed Professor Majella Franzmann as the pro vice-chancellor ...

Flexibility and industry involvement is delivering results for a Queensland commerce degree Work-readiness is the buzz-word across a range of disciplines. But how to achieve it is the very real challenge facing universities across the country. Now industry involvement and ...

A program at UTS is improving economic students’ analytical writing skills, writes Fiona Livy. “Students don’t necessarily arrive at university with academic writing skills, but these are skills that can be taught,” says Kerry Hunter, lecturer with UTS’s ELSSA Centre. ...

Immersive dramatic techniques are challenging assumptions about how to teach business, writes Linda Belardi. A student in the role of a marketing consultant prepares for a briefing with the CEO of a leading tourism firm. The client is demanding and ...

It’s been a big year in tertiary education. Or has it? We asked the experts to highlight the highlights. By John Ross. How will educational historians judge 2009? The Year of the Seamless Sector? The Year of Social Inclusion? The ...

Online intro Five assurance schemes may be rolled into one, under reforms being considered by the Baird Review. Consumer protection mechanisms for international students whose colleges go bust could be rolled into a single assurance scheme under changes being considered ...

Early this year, reports of the imminent death of international education proved premature. As the year closes, the industry’s prospects are no clearer, writes John Ross. The more things change, the more they stay the same. At the beginning of ...

Online intro Low quality VET providers may have “stuck a dagger in the heart” of the elite universities. Low-end VET providers bear primary responsibility for the bad publicity about Australian education, but the top-end universities could suffer the most, according ...

Any new measure of SES needs to have the confidence of the sector and is fit for purpose, writes Trevor Gale. DEEWR is on the verge of releasing its discussion paper on how to measure socioeconomic status (SES) for higher ...