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Failing universities should be allowed to do precisely that – fail – or be taken over by the private sector, a UK think tank has argued. Policy Exchange argues that government has been too swift to redeem failing institutions by ...

Women language academics standing still English and foreign language departments in the US promote male associate professors to full professors on average at least a year more speedily than they promote women, according to a new study by the Modern ...

Australian researchers to undertake major HIV drug review UNSW researchers will conduct a major project to optimise the drugs used to treat HIV after receiving an $18 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The study is seen ...

All five Sydney-based universities have expressed concern about an international student organisation whose principal representative has made persistent approaches to senior executives as it tries to get a foothold in the post-VSU environment. Senior university staff have reported having had ...

A third of Australian and New Zealand undergraduates “seriously consider” leaving their universities before they finish their courses. And that doesn’t include those who’ve already left, according to the latest study on student engagement. Last year’s Australasian Study of Student ...

Education minister Julia Gillard channelled Australia’s “equal but different” binary system of higher education when she responded to the Bradley panel’s recommendations for a more integrated tertiary sector. “Two systems, one shared vision: a stronger and fairer Australia,” she trumpeted ...

Australian higher education and the world: has the Bradley report got it right, asks Simon Marginson. Are we optimising the global position of Australian higher education? International students are now 26 per cent of all Australian universities students, 20 per ...

Funding arrangements for the Productivity Places Program (PPP) have given rise to “a perverse set of delivery arrangements”, a senior bureaucrat told this month’s Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association conference.