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Swinburne University has won large training provider of the year at the National Training Awards. Swinburne TAFE is the nation’s leading large training provider - recognised at this year’s Australian Training awards. The main event on the national VET calendar ...

A national scholarship scheme is proof that sometimes a small amount can make a big difference. The same evening that the impasse over Youth Allowance and Commonwealth scholarships came to a head in Parliament, training sector stalwarts filed into Parliament ...

Crommelin to lead Melbourne Law School Professor Michael Crommelin has been appointed as dean of the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne. Crommelin’s appointment follows the recent decision of the current dean Professor James Hathaway to return to ...

Simon Haines finds that Chinese and Latin share a crucial ethical concept. Now here’s a funny cross-cultural coincidence. We have an English word “pious”, which tends nowadays to mean excessively or irritatingly moralistic or religiose. Piety just isn’t a trendy ...

US international graduate recruitment stalls After four years of growth, international recruitment to US graduate schools has stalled, reports University World News. A survey by the Council of Graduate Schools, which represents 500 graduate institutions, shows that between 2008 and 2009 ...

A new dance residency program at UNSW could help enhance practice-led scholarship and research in the creative arts – and perhaps also encourage more men to enter this heavily female-dominated field. Erin Brannigan, lecturer in dance in UNSW’s School of ...

A European conference has heard that scholarly narcissism is leading humanities and social sciences to ruin. Academic narcissism” and a focus on self-promotion over scholarly substance are being blamed for bringing the humanities and the social sciences to the brink. ...

The humanities are at the end of the research funding queue – perhaps they need their own. By Jeremy Gilling. Late last year the Minister for Industry, Science and Research, Kim Carr, told the National Press Club that the humanities ...

$2.6 million for aged care training Minister for Ageing Justine Elliot has announced $2.6 million to provide training for 4000 staff working in rural and regional aged care homes. “Distance in rural and regional Australia can create challenges for staff ...

The government must consider raising student contributions if it is to meet its key higher education targets and agenda. An increase in student contributions must be considered if universities are to meet the federal government’s participation targets and quality agenda ...