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Tim DoddHigher Education Editor

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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03/03/2016: Simon Haines is setting up a new centre for arts and humanities that will work across Australia's best universities. The centre will produce ground braking humanities research and is being funded by a philanthropic gift from private health magnate Paul Ramsay who left his entire $3bn fortune to a philanthropic trust. Photographed in St Leonards on Friday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

The correct decision on academic freedom

At last the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation is willing to include a commitment to the principle in agreements.

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Higher Education

14/02/2019 Bridget Fallon and Cassandra Hocking in an anatomy lab at Monash University. They start studying their medical degree shortly in the new Murray Darling rural medical program, a multi university plan to allow students from regional areas to study medicine in the regions.Picture : David Geraghty / The Australian.

New medical recruits for a country practice

Two women who went to primary school together are in the first intake of students into the Murray-Darling medical program.

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Higher Education

Liverpool Leader - Pictured: Paul Wellings (Vice-chancellor of the uni) speaks - chats with students - Today is the official opening of the Liverpool campus of the University of Wollongong. Photographs taken at the event, 33 Moore Street, Liverpool NSW Australia

Ramsay fast-track ‘subverts the intent’

An authority on academic governance has questioned Wollongong’s fast-tracking of its Ramsay Centre-sponsored degree.

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Orla Latawski, inaugural winner of the Julia Gillard scholarship at Curtin University

First winner

One of WA’s top year 12 students has been selected as the inaugural winner of the Julia Gillard Women in Leadership Scholarship.

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Business strategist and author Kenichi Ohmae

Business thinker honoured

Legendary Japanese management thinker Kenichi Ohmae has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Bond University.

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Professor Caroline McMillen, vice-chancellor of Newcastle University. Supplied

VC returns to uni

SA chief scientist Caroline McMillen has joined the council of the University of South Australia.

The Deal

Teacher Explaining Something to Students. Upskilling is an important part of improving your job prospects. For Cairns Post.

Time for tech in the classroom

There are just too many kids to educate using traditional teaching – which means there’s a major opportunity for online.

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Professor Emma Johnston , the Dean of Science at UNSW and a leader in Marine Ecology has been made an Officer or the Order of Australia (AO) as part of the Queens Birthday Honours list. Picture: John Appleyard

Bias revealed

Students are more likely to rate male teachers more highly than female teachers according to a study at UNSW.

Higher Education

Statue of Pallas Athena in front of the Austrian Parliament in Vienna. All statues were created before 1893.

Lively journey across Western ideas and art

The University of Wollongong says its degree on Western civilisation will be a chronological philosophical adventure.

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Higher Education

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Business schools join forces

The University of Melbourne has joined a global network of business schools.

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