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Tanner quashes budget expectations Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has given the strongest warning yet that universities and research bodies shouldn’t expect a May budget splurge. The government now projects deficits totalling $100 billion over the next three years and that’s ...

It started modestly, with a handful of people working 18-hour days to ready a makeshift campus for the first intake of 70 students in 1999. But 10 years later, Curtin Sarawak is a fully fledged greenfields campus replete with modern ...

Social inclusion is very much on the radar of the University of Sydney’s vice-chancellor Dr Michael Spence, writes Julie Hare. There a saying that vice-chancellors of Group of Eight universities like to drag out when describing their august institutions: elite ...

UK experience shows that scholarships help, but they are not the key to an equitable system, says Martin Harris. When higher fees were introduced in the UK in 2006 for full-time undergraduate students, there was widespread concern that this would ...

Universities always seem to meet government targets, but something, usually quality, gives along the way, writes Jane den Hollander. The vision for Australia where 40 per cent of our citizens are educated to at least bachelor degree level and where ...

Will the excitement around green skills and sustainability move past the phase of popcorn popping? It was unusual to watch a friend of mine, a card-carrying member of the National Party, applaud the president of the ACTU. We were seated ...

TAFE-delivered nursing degrees will become a reality from August, after education minister Julia Gillard approved Holmesglen Institute of TAFE’s application to offer 40 Commonwealth-supported nursing places next semester. The approval concludes a process that’s taken Holmesglen two and a half ...

Work-based training is one of the objectives of the $650 million Jobs Fund which the federal government agreed to with cross-bench senators Brown and Fielding during February negotiations over the government’s $42 billion economic stimulus package. Announcing details of the ...

What are young people’s labour market chances in the recession, asks Erica Smith. In early 2007, at the height of the economic boom, I presented a paper to a national workshop that was looking at youth transitions. The paper compared ...

Stalagmites may show how fast ice is melting Researchers may be able to establish how fast the world’s ice sheets are melting by studying rare preserved stalagmites in a coastal cave in Italy. The stalagmites provide a timeline of sea ...