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With the release of COAG’s workplan, Damon Anderson reflects on the skills reform agenda and finds it lacking imagination. We are purportedly in the midst of an education revolution involving major investment in school infrastructure and revitalisation of higher education. ...

The $6 billion higher education overhaul recommended by the Bradley review is expected to be staggered over several years due to the new economic reality. Education minister and acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard told radio host Alan Jones last week ...

Professor Iain Hay likes to teach. He’s also very good at it, having collected a Prime Minister’s university teacher of the year award in 2007. He’s now going to help spread the word for those teaching in the arts, humanities ...

Protest over prayer rooms Muslim students at RMIT University have protested at the lack of prayer rooms, saying they are being sexually harassed and discriminated against. But university management denied it. saying Muslim students were more than catered for. The ...

Private higher education will proliferate as a result of the major policy changes stemming from the Bradley review, along with the federal government’s decision to do away with full fee-paying domestic undergraduate places, according to University of Technology Sydney vice-chancellor ...

If the idea of think global, act local has merit, then Queensland University of Technology is doing its bit for reducing carbon emssions. The university is one of the five members of the Australian Technology Network, which has agreed collectively ...

lthough skill shortages may not be grabbing the same level of attention as before the onset of the global financial crisis, policymakers worry that they will re-emerge – perhaps worse than before – as world economies recover. But one prominent ...

Twitter is all the rage in some walks of life. Celebrities appear to have embraced it wholeheartedly, as was recently demonstrated by comedian Stephen Fry, who used the micro-blogging service to give minute-by-minute updates during an afternoon stuck in a ...

After many attempts, an approach of collaboration and partnership may help Australia strike the right balance in its relationship with its Pacific neighbours right, writes David Lowe. The challenges faced collectively by the nations in the Pacific region are perhaps ...

The Go8 has been slammed again for its equity record, but do the claims hold up under scrutiny, asks Ben O’Neill. The latest round of hand-wringing over alleged inequity in Australian universities, with smear terms thrown at elite institutions (CR, ...