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La Trobe Open Day – a sort of Homecoming

Driving into La Trobe’s Open Day in Bundoora this weekend felt like some sort of homecoming. I took our youngest, Josh, to his first Open ...
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Why competitive strategies harden universities arteries

“Strategic bureaucracy” may be an oxymoron, but it explains how universities work – and don’t. Peter Woelert (Uni Melbourne) researches the ways universities are run, ...
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International

The Empire strikes back on caps

The Government’s plans to cap international enrolments at universities is “draconian, interventionist and amounts to economic vandalism,“ the Group of Eight’s Vicki Thomson told a ...
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Analysis

Business investment in skills and training: ‘Ask not what your country can subsidise for you…’

This title corrupts JFK’s inauguration challenge, which goes on to exhort “ask what you can do for your country”. And that’s the question posed here ...
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International

Students recruited to help run uni in Slovenia

From the University of Ljubljana comes an interesting idea – providing placements for students within the University’s administration to help run the university. A paper ...
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Is history, history?

History is a discipline in serious decline in Australasia, raising concerns for the future. A new paper by UQ’s Associate Professor Martin Crotty and University ...
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The Digest

The Week That Was (2 August)

Just filed to the Rhetorical Question for the Ages desk; ANU headlines a research story, “are you smarter than a Neanderthal?” Certainly not – very ...
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Cybersecurity

Nothing private about personal information at Western Sydney U

Western Sydney University announces personal information was exposed in a major data breach between July 23 and March this year. WSU first revealed a hack ...
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Climate Impact

Trash talk yields green credit

Hospitals could massively reduce their rubbish output and climate impact through some fairly simple steps in reducing their waste stream, University of Melbourne researchers have ...
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