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The last quarter-century has brought colossal changes in the education experience for Australian university students. In the early 1990s, technology was an adjunct to education; students and teachers used it but it was completely possible to get a university degree ...

Collaboration solutions are driving a teaching transformation Our students are living in a digital world. It is the most interconnected time in human history with 40 per cent of the world’s population – almost three billion people – online. In ...

ANU is set to receive what is understood to be Australia’s largest ever personal philanthropic contribution, in an arrangement worth about $200 million. Graham and Louise Tuckwell announced the details of their contribution this week. It will be spread out over the next ...

Mixing business, leisure and education on the same network can create challenges for network capacity. By Bruce Miller. At most higher-education institutions today, you’ll find students, faculty and staff struggling with consistently bad internet. It’s hard to believe these are places of ...

There’s one thing we can say for sure about higher education policy for the next 12 months: no matter which party wins the election, there will be more consultations and reviews. Last year, Labor announced a green paper-white paper approach ...

SAVINGS MEASURES Higher Education Reform — deregulation shelved, funding cuts delayed to 2018 As explained in the budget papers regarding the government's deregulation reforms that were twice rejected by the senate: "The government will delay the implementation of the higher education reforms ...

Nineteen Australian universities have scored places in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of the Top 150 institutions under 50 years old. Sixteen of these universities placed in the Top 100, equaling Australia's performance from a year prior, when the ranking was ...

Women may soon be able to use a nasal spray for pain relief during childbirth following successful trials by an Australian midwifery researcher. The nasal spray analgesic drug, fentanyl, was shown to be just as effective in relieving labour pain ...

Canada’s applied research model generates innovations across a variety of sectors from smaller businesses and students at VET-type institutions. By Ruth Schubert Mark Hoddenbagh, executive director at Algonquin College, Ontario, says Canadian university students will work for money, marks and ...

Students and industry have been well served by competitive VET, and policy should focus on refining these reforms. By Rod Camm Last year was, to say the least, an interesting year for the VET sector. It kicked off with the ...