Professor Alan Woodland, an ARC professorial fellow at the Australian School of Business, has received the 2008 Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia. The award recognises exceptional Australian economists for their contribution to the development of economics ...

The trickle up theory – that an increasing number of women undertaking PhDs and entering academia would ultimately result in more in higher level positions – has not eventuated. And despite progressive and generous maternity leave provisions, universities are witnessing ...

Mission-based compacts should have a complementary rather than a central funding role, the Group of Eight believes, with their main functions to encourage community engagement and knowledge transfer and to broaden access to higher education. The Go8 wants to see ...

Australia has the third-best university system in the world, after the US and UK. Or at least that is the claim of Quacquerelli Symonds, the company that runs the THE-QS international rankings of universities. After five years rating individual universities, ...

Australia’s education system ranks ninth in the world according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009, released earlier this month by the World Economic Forum. The report found Australia’s education system was well suited to meet the needs of a competitive ...

A total of 225 staff will be made redundant at Victoria University over the next six months in what has been described as “the largest proportionate redundancy program in Australian higher education history”. Savings of $27 million will be made ...

Bureaucratic obstacles, real and imagined, are keeping international graduates from jobs in an economy supposedly riddled with skill shortages. The anomaly is threatening the viability of Australia’s biggest export service industry while squandering a skilled labour pool of around half ...

Toby Miller spent two weeks retooling with the great and the good of critical theory. It was a blissful experience.   I’ve just emerged from the northern summer seminar in experimental critical theory, described as a boot camp for humanists ...

In 2005, Professor Terry Evans stood up in front of a room full of professional doctorate students from Deakin University and delivered a presentation titled: ‘Why do a prof doc when you can do a PhD?’ It wasn’t tongue in ...

Efforts to improve the quality and rate of academic writing by doctoral students are “sporadic and ad hoc”. Furthermore, low publication rates have implications not only for individual careers but more broadly as universities are increasingly held accountable for the ...