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Tim Dodd is The Australian’s higher education editor. He has over 25 years experience as a journalist covering a wide variety of areas in public policy, economics, politics and foreign policy, including reporting from the Canberra press gallery and four years based in Jakarta as South East Asia correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. He was named 2014 Higher Education Journalist of the Year by the National Press Club.

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Row of private high school students work on assignment in class. They are writing or using laptops or digital tablets. They are concentrating as they study. They are wearing school uniforms.

Jobs count over research strength

Prospective university students place low importance on their university’s research strength, according to a new survey.

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EMBARGOED UNTIL 11AM Tuesday 5 March 2019. An artist's impression of planned Blacktown campus of Australian Catholic University. Supplied

Blacktown hub for ACU

The Australian Catholic University has partnered with Blacktown Council in Sydney’s west to build a new campus.

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15/05/2017 Peter Dawkins vice-chancellor of Victoria University in Footscray. He's announcing transformational changes at the university.Picture: David Geraghty / The Australian.

Surplus hits $2bn but seven unis in deficit

Seven higher institutions recorded net operating deficits in 2017, all but one of them in regional Australia.

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08/02/2019. Jack Goodman, founder and executive chair; Judyth Sachs, chief academic officer and Mike Larsen, CEO of Studiosity. The company tutors university students online and is introducing a new system to roster tutors very similar to the way Uber manages its drivers. Photographed at their offices in St Leonards in Sydney's north. Britta Campion / The Australian

Uber-style service to offer peer-to-peer learning app

Education company Studiosity will launch a service that will let students earn money from tutoring other students.

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Labor wants to have it both ways

Tanya Plibersek’s speech to the Universities Australia conference last week set out Labor’s tertiary education thrust.

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Urban students hanging out, waiting for class outside the university.

Positive perception of job prospects

Some 60 per cent of university students believe their course gives them the skills they will need to find a job.

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EMBARGOED UNTIL 11AM Tuesday 5 March 2019. An artist's impression of planned Blacktown campus of Australian Catholic University. Supplied

ACU goes west

The Australian Catholic University will build a new campus for 3,000 students in Blacktown in the heart of Sydney’s west.

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Former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks today gave a talk on superannuation and infrastructure investment at KPMG, Sydney.

Bracks is back

Victoria University has named former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks as its new chancellor

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Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan addresses the media outside of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, Sunday, January 27, 2019. The Education Minister has urged all Australian schools to take action against bullying and sign up for the ninth National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence on Friday, March 15, 2019. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

The lost speech

It’s a mystery for the ages. Where did Dan Tehan’s speech go?

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26/02/2019Labor Deputy Opposition leader Tanya Plibersek at the CFMMEU state conference, Fremantlepic Colin Murty The Australian

Extensive tertiary inquiry pledged

Federal Labor’s promised inquiry into tertiary education is set to be bigger and further-reaching than the Bradley review.

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