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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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CommentHigher Education

Playing politics with weasel words

Labor is blowing a dog whistle about international students taking Australian jobs.

Tim Dodd

Opinion

Uni's VCs Image Adelaide University and UniSA in merger talks. Left to right: UniSAChancellor Jim McDowell, UniSA Vice-Chancellor David Lloyd, AdelaideUniversity Vice-Chancellor Peter Rathjen, Adelaide University ChancellorKevin Scarce.

Merger to put Adelaide on the map

The union of University of Adelaide and University of South Australia would give the state a competitive world-class university.

Chris Schacht

Higher Education

IT course gets straight to work

The University of Canberra has launched a practical degree that will place 25 information technology students into the workplace.

Tim Dodd

Higher Education

Woman doctor using tablet computer in hospital

Software helps cut medicine bills

If hospitals across the country adopted the software, they could save up to $100 million a year.

Tim Dodd

Higher Education

East Timorese journalism students practicing with equipment donated by the University of Technology, Sydney. Supplied

Cameras good news for Timorese

Abilio Soares, a recent graduate of the UTS, flew back to East Timor at the weekend with a useful donation: 10 video cameras.

Sian Powell

Opinion

Ryan teaching Yr 9 English Persuasive Writing.Students l-r- Harrison Battersby (14), Caleb Mildenhall (14), Ryan, Hayden Gardner (14) and Kahlani Phillips (14). Ryan Steed has just started teaching at Cecil Andrews Senior High School, Seville Grove, after being recruited by Teach for Australia.

Those who can, should teach

Teach for Australia brings STEM professionals into classrooms to share their passion and expertise with the next generation.

Melodie Potts Rosevear

Higher Education

Professor Scott O'Neill, Director, World Mosquito Program with Dr Luciano Moreira, Brazil Program Lead, World Mosquito Program (on the left)

Mozzie fighters in slap-down test

The latest front in the world’s mosquito wars is around Innisfail in far north Queensland.

SIAN POWELL

Higher Education

Peter Varghese, chancellor of the University of Queensland.

Education can drive India ties

The perception that Australian universities and vocational institutions are not of high quality needs to be addressed.

CHRISTOPHER NIESCHE

Opinion

Eric Lobbecke Higher Ed Cartoon for 18-07-2018. Version: Higher Ed (1024x768 - Aspect ratio preserved, Canvas added)COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications.Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.

Build the foundation with maths

The skills needed to be flexible, agile and collaborative are developed by mastering content.

Alan Finkel

Opinion

Grahame McCulloch, General Secretary of National Tertiary Education Unionhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/grahame-mcculloch-69344b6a/

Uni culture has changed for worse

Rising workloads and the increased casualisation of staff remain problems to be overcome by universities and the staff union.

Grahame McCulloch

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