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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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Macquarie University trainee teacher Demi Gilbert doing a teaching practicum at Chitkara International School in Chandigarh in north India. Supplied

Trainee teachers ‘learn a lot’ from Chandigarh classes

Education students at Macquarie University have completed their first teaching practicums overseas in northern India.

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Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Cyber Security Dan Tehan in his office at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

National interest test for uni grants

A national-interest test for research grants will boost public confidence, says Education Minister Dan Tehan.

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Higher Education

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, October 23, 2018. Father Chris Riley's Youth Off The Streets, which cares for vulnerable teenagers and operates special assistance schools across NSW, had its funding cut from $17,000 per student to $8000 as a result changes to the way money is distributed. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Graduate job hopes still solid, says data

Nine in 10 university graduates with a bachelor-level degree are employed in full-time work within three years.

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Higher Education

Trade Minister Simon Birmingham visiting Pialligo Smokehouse in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Secret powers of research veto are a threat to intellectual freedoms

Let’s be clear on one thing. A minister does and should have the power to question, and ultimately overturn, any research grant.

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Higher Education

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, India. Picture: iStockDoc Holiday, Escape

Universities should adjust to Indian needs as Chinese tide recedes

Growth in Chinese students is likely to slow and universities need to adapt fast to capture the growing Indian market.

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Higher Education

Adult Student or Teacher Frustrated With Work To Do.

Student attrition rate improving

Australian universities can celebrate a vast improvement in the student attrition rate.

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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

25 years in Dubai

The University of Wollongong has notched up 25 years of delivering education in Dubai.

Higher Education

16/02/2018: Dr Margaret Gardner, Vice-Chancellor of Monash University. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

Senator ‘selective’ in campus rules criticism

Australia’s top university official has hit back at a Liberal senator who said unis restricted free speech.

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Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell at the Australian National University in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Jolly good fellows

Ten women are among the 25 new fellows elected to the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.

Higher Education

06/09/2018 Australian sex therapist, journalist and clinical psychologist Bettina Arndt is confronted protesters from the Victorian Socialists at La Trobe University before her talk at the UniversityPicture : David Geraghty / The Australian.

Probe into uni free speech

Higher education regulator TEQSA will investigate whether Australian universities are restricting freedom of speech.

Tim Dodd

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