Oh, what a week as campuses adapt to VSU
FIRST-YEAR students are preparing for orientation week activities, but O-week is feeling the effects of voluntary student unionism.
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Boom in the hard sciences
ENGINEERING and science have experienced a growth surge while overall university applications are down.
Students rank Aussie unis third in world
OVERSEAS students have ranked Australia as the third best country in the world for university education, a new survey has revealed.
Democrats call for action on HECS
THE Democrats have called on the Rudd Government to take urgent action to head off steep increases in the cost of university education.
Research council calls for transparent funding
THE $30bn federal and state government funding system for schools is highly political, inefficient, in disarray and needs overhauling.
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.
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.
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.
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