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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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A picture taken on October 31, 2018, shows a supervisor (C) giving instructions to students who have been taken on as apprentices how to prepare a meawork in a Sofia's restaurant. - The combination of vocational education with on-the-job training is long-established practice in other countries such as Switzerland, Germany and Austria but Bulgaria only began piloting such schemes in 2015. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Ai Group urges sector reform to close gap

The Australian Industry Group has joined calls for major reform of tertiary education.

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Supplied picture of Professor Duncan Maskell, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne

Popular books to live on at MUP

The University of Melbourne’s press will continue to publish books on politics and current affairs.

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4/2/19: Ann Brewer who is dean of the Sydney Campus of the University of Newcastle. She will be joining the board of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. John Feder/The Australian.

Ramsay’s great books ‘broaden the mind’

The “great books” courses in the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation will help students in the 21st century workplace

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Spiral galaxy, illustration of Milky Way

Galaxy has new shape

Macquarie University astronomers have determined that our Milky Way galaxy is not a thin, flat disk, but warped into an S-like shape.

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3d rendering of a brown money bag with a dollar sign stands on concrete background with many shadow hands grabbing and pointing at it. Money and income. Lottery prize. Corrupting money.

Pre-budget pile on

The annual round of university pre-budget submissions to government has begun.

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Renee Hindmarsh, pictured in Melbourne, is the new head of Australian Technology Network.

Hindmarsh moves on

Renee Hindmarsh, executive director of the Australian Technology Network of Universities, is moving on.

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2018. Vice chancellor Professor Helen Bartlett was photographed by Melbourne photographer Elke Meitzel on the Federation Univsity Campus in Ballarat.

Women in command

Women now overwhelmingly dominate the leadership positions in groups representing Australian universities.

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PNG uni council fired over ‘failures’

There are fears for the independence of universities in Papua New Guinea following the removal of the governing council of the University of PNG.

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Higher Education

Professor Frank Larkins on the grounds of Melbourne University in Victoria. Larkins has written a history of research at Australian Universities.

PhDs attract mainly foreigners

Australia is becoming increasingly dependent on foreign PhD students to carry out university research.

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Higher Education

29/10/2018 University of Western Australia vice-chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater at UWApic Colin Murty The Australian

Freshwater, Leinonen to lead Go8 and IRU

The Group of Eight universities has appointed its first female chair: UWA vice-chancellor Dawn Freshwater.

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