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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 ...

Hawkins to Tokyo Professor Gay Hawkins from UNSW’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has been given a visiting appointment at the University of Tokyo. Hawkins, a cultural studies expert in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, will ...

Visiting Taiwan for a conference, Simon Haines discovers the world’s true globalisers. Taiwan, like Hong Kong, is a small Chinese outrider, living on its wits and taking an anxious pride in its startling economic success and its tenuous political autonomy. ...