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Go8 looks to India The Group of Eight is looking to open an office in New Delhi to help counter fallout from the Indian student debacle and escalate its presence in Asia. Professor Ian Chubb, vice-chancellor of ANU, told the ...

Australia’s indigenous population will grow to almost 850,000 by 2031 and 1 million by 2040, with the growth rate immune to indigenous affairs policy, according to a new study from the ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. But indigenous ...

International education needs better regulation, but what about opportunistic journalism, asks John Ross. Australia’s international education industry has problems. But in the parallel universe created by the media, they’re even worse. International education has been the big success story over ...

TAFEs should be able to collect a proportion of funding received by universities in exchange for teaching part of the courses on their behalf. This is just one possibility that could be considered in the new tertiary environment, a roundtable ...

The University of Melbourne will offer voluntary redundancies to up to 100 staff as part of an “economic response program” to plug the hole left by the university’s worst ever investment losses. Vice-chancellor Professor Glynn Davis last week said redundancies ...

The head of a US program designed to attract top graduates from a range of disciplines into teaching in disadvantaged schools has defended the Australian version of the program against strident criticism from teacher groups. Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach ...

Standards: are they objective, limiting or alarming? By Robin McTaggart. Despite the will of politicians, pedants and the public, academic standards cannot be objectively stated. It follows that any judgment of compliance with a standard cannot be objective either. Standards ...

Many coalface academics find themselves leading their peers with little or no preparation, writes Judy Nagy. When we think of leadership in teaching and learning, we tend to think of senior staff – the vice-chancellor, the various DVCs and, perhaps, ...

The disadvantage of rural and regional students will be amplified by changes to Youth Allowance, writes Fiona Nash. The surest way for a political party to gauge public sentiment on a policy announcement is to penalise people who have made ...

The government needs to move quickly to find alternative solutions to regional and rural provision, writes David Battersby. The recent abandonment of the National University for Regional Australia initiative is to be expected. The three instigators of this project – ...