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Uni fees forecast to rocket

UNIVERSITY fees for students are set to skyrocket and could top $26,000 a year in the next three decades, putting an even greater hole in the back pocket of families trying to educate their children.

First Olympic champion gets a bronze for ‘just being there’

AUSTRALIA’S first Olympic champion, runner Edwin Flack, has been officially recognised as having won a third medal, in tennis doubles, more than 100 years after the event and despite failing to win a match.

1977 Cabinet Papers

How Don Chipp spoke up for the disenchanted

IT was the thousands of letters from disenchanted voters across the country that stopped Don Chipp walking away from politics in March 1977 and paved the way for the creation of the Australian Democrats.

Canberra dumps much-maligned RQF

THE new Rudd Government announced today it would scrap the much-maligned Research Quality Framework.

Milanda Rout and Matthew Knott

Unis fight over young scholars

THEY were on top of the world yesterday and being fought over by two of the best universities in Australia.

Specialisation lacks funds: Democrats

A LACK of government funding is a significant factor in the absence of any world-class specialist universities in Australia, the Australian Democrats have said.

Our universities fail specialist test

AUSTRALIA does not have one world-class “specialist” university, according to a report on the nation’s tertiary institutions.

ANU tops field in new index

THE Australian National University’s strength in science and humanities has edged it ahead of the University of Melbourne.

Tertiary compo inquiry launched

EVERY university and TAFE college in Victoria will be investigated by workplace safety inspectors in a bid to reduce the number of stress and injury claims made by academic staff.

Wanted: 123,000 land staff

AUSTRALIA faces a skills shortage of 123,000 land managers and agricultural scientists in the next six years as climate change takes its toll and farmers have to get more environmentally friendly.