At least 30 Australian university senior academics and staff members were in Mumbai at the time terrorist attacks, with at least one staff member trapped for an extended period of time in the Oberai Hotel in Mumbai. A delegation of ...

Australian universities need to look within for agents of change. But they also need to externalise their view of the world by benchmarking different aspects of their operations from outside higher education. In a plenary session of an Australian Learning ...

Two university teachers whose “outstanding teaching qualities” made it impossible to separate them have been recognised as joint winners of the Prime Minister’s University Teaching Award in 2008. Associate Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, from the modern history at Macquarie University, and ...

Australian universities might fly high in the eyes of US citizens, but a move by the influential US News & World Report to adopt the THE/QS global rankings could ultimately draw attention to the questionable methodologies used to rank them. ...

The Fair Work Bill, introduced into parliament last week by workplace relations minister Julia Gillard, might change universities’ tactics when they square off against the unions. But it won’t overhaul the game, according to the Australian Higher Education Industry Association ...

A charter that protects researchers’ rights to debate socially sensitive issues will encourage active discussion, says Kim Carr.   One of my first actions as Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research was to start work on charters confirming the ...

Student academic misconduct is a serious problem for higher education institutions. The quality of an institution’s awards relies on assessing the student’s academic performance, not their ability to cut and paste, collude, cheat or pay for essays. Misconduct – in ...

While the higher education sector might be booming with its largesse of $13.7 billion from educational exports, there is another section of education doing it very tough. I am referring to the more than 30 per cent (on average, and ...

Making sense of data can be a survival skill. University administrators have to make accurate budget and planning decisions; they have to meet the expectations of students, researchers and academics; they have investment portfolios to manage; and must cope with ...

Southbank Institute of Technology in central Brisbane is restructuring its workforce, amid claims the newly corporatised institute has converted a $1 million-plus operating surplus into a $6 million deficit in just four months. The reports raise a question mark over ...