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The government’s ambitious higher education completion targets have already been achieved for women, but are being hampered by men who underperform on most higher education measures when compared to their female counterparts. For the past five years, just 28 per ...

The problems that have emerged in VET for international students could replicate themselves in domestic VET unless the federal government curtails its “ideological obsession” to foster competition in the training market, according to the Australian Education Union. AEU federal president ...

Establishing standards does not demand standardisation of curricula – if we get it right. Kerri-Lee Harris takes an international perspective. Academic standards are currently a hot topic in Australian higher education – at least among university leaders and commentators. In ...

With the number of learned papers published each year rising, the peer review system might be expected to be fraying at the seams. But an international survey of academics states that two thirds are satisfied with the current system for ...

The widening scope of Youth Allowance has been broadly welcomed, but the sector’s peak lobby group says the Government needs to revisit the issue as soon as economic conditions improve. “It is a simple fact that income support for Australian ...

Universities may need to negotiate case-by-case agreements with individual researchers if they hope to benefit from the inventions developed during the course of their employment, following a decision in the Federal Court. Most universities are now seeking legal advice as ...

Dr Sharon Friel, an international expert on food poverty from ANU, was one of 200 mid-career researchers who received a Future Fellowship grant last week from the Australian Research Council. It was worth about $740,000 over four years. “When I ...

If the higher education sector is to take seriously the federal government’s 20/40 targets, then there are three main challenges that need to be confronted, writes Trevor Gale. The federal government has set two key equity targets which is driving ...

University governance has shifted to a more corporate model and the role of the chancellor is evolving to suit, writes John Phillips. WS Gilbert waxed lyrically and humorously about the role of the modern major general and the knowledge and ...

The integration of international students with their local peers is hindered by language difficulties. By Erlenawati Sawir. No one would argue that the ghettoisation of international students is a situation we wish to see. But the reasons behind the lack ...