30 August 2010 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
The Waite Research Institute
30 August 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Deakin University has signed a letter of intent with the research and development centre of Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation (WISCO), China's top three steel company.
30 August 2010 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
Without a major funding injection, the university sector will enter deficit within five years and accrue an annual deficit of $1.6 billion by 2020, the director of finance at Swinburne University of Technology has warned.
30 August 2010 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
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30 August 2010 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
There are lecturers in financial services law and then there's Kevin Lewis. Recently appointed to the top compliance job at the Australian Securities Exchange, he is arguably the nation's foremost expert on financial services regulation.
30 August 2010 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
A second tertiary education business will be listed on the Australian stockmarket, its directors aiming to defy an increasingly gloomy outlook for the international students market.
30 August 2010 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
Universities are broadening their channels of international student recruitment after being stung by a sharp decline in overseas enrolments, which is expected to intensify next year.
30 August 2010 | Vicki Thomson | The Australian Financial Review
When the three Independents presented the Prime Minister with a list of the eight portfolio areas they wished to receive high level briefings on to assist them in determining who should form government - industry, innovation, science and research did not feature.
23 August 2010 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
The battle for Australia's top political job is over for another three years. But within the nation's intellectual strongholds, the leadership challenge is mounting.
23 August 2010 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
The medical profession is refusing to back plans by two universities to set up new medical schools, warning of a prospective glut of unemployed doctors.
23 August 2010 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
Accreditation for the final two years of a Sydney university's medical degree is under a cloud after the profession's education watchdog, the Australian Medical Council, raised concerns about staffing levels and resources.
23 August 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
New TAFE degrees
23 August 2010 | Derrick Armstrong | The Australian Financial Review
The involvement of professions in setting course standards is often beneficial for both industry and tertiary bodies.
23 August 2010 | Michaela Whitbourn | The Australian Financial Review
A short course on mining law at the University of Queensland is bringing lawyers together with workers at the coalface, in one of a rich seam of law firm-led courses designed to attract students to law schools.
23 August 2010 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
Universities are calling on the incoming government to reinstate an Australia-China research fund or risk fracturing relationships with the Chinese government and universities.
23 August 2010 | oanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
Victoria University aims to give 1000 students a job on campus under a new program designed to reduce drop-out rates and improve graduate employability.
