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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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VET prepares workers for future

New caps on loans are keeping costs down for students.

Karen Andrews

Higher Education

09/04/2018: Monarchist Chanum Torres, 19, left, and Republican Nell Cohen, 21, at Sydney University.Pic by James Croucher

$90,000 for undergraduate degree

A typical international student pays more than $90,000 for a three-year degree, and much more at some universities.

Tim Dodd

Opinion

14/5/2018: ALP Leader Bill Shorten with Susan Lamb the ALP candidate for the Longman by-election, at a community meeting in the Caboolture Sports Club, ay Morayfield, north of Brisbane. Local federal member Susan Lamb was ruled ineligible by the High Court's ruling on her citizenship. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Ignore inequity at political peril

Those in marginal seats are hurt most by the funding freeze.

Andy Marks

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Deputy Leader of the Opposition Tanya Plibersek speaks during a press conference in Sydney, Sunday, April 29, 2018. Labor says it has come up with a new source of GST revenue that would allow the states to agree to cut the 10 per cent tax on female sanitary products.(AAP Image/Daniel Munoz) NO ARCHIVING

Expert group meets

Labor’s expert panel on post-secondary education meets today to set terms of reference for a sweeping inquiry if Bill Shorten wins government.

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L-R: David Sharp, CEO of Securities Industry Research Centre of Asia-Pacific (SIRCA); Craig Laundy, Minister for Workplace and Deregulation; David Wright, Acting Group CEO of Capital Market Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC).

High hopes for merger

Two highly successful university-backed financial market research groups will merge in pursuit of even greater achievements.

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Rise of the machines: UNSW robots take on the world:UNSW’s robot soccer team and their minders, current and former engineering students, are hoping they can knock their traditional rivals off the top spot in the world’s largest robot competition. Pictured by GRANT TURNER

Go the Socceroobots

Australia’s robot soccer team from UNSW takes on the world next week in the globe’s biggest competition.

Higher Education

Former Premier John Brumby wins Australia day honours (AO) for service as Premier of Victoria, medical biotech and rural and regional infrastructure service. Picture: Chris Eastman

Brumby may hang up on Huawei

Former Victorian premier is reviewing his directorships, including his long-term role with the Chinese telco manufacturer Huawei.

Tim Dodd

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UNDATED : Johnny Warren on ball in undated photo during game at the Gabba in Brisbane. Pic News Limited.HistoricalSoccer A/CT

World Cup spirit

The University of Sydney Business School has got into the spirit of the World Cup with a $140,000 PhD scholarship to study the governance of soccer in Australia.

Higher Education

Jan Owen is the CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians and has written a book titled 'The Future Chasers' which profiles fifteen young Australians.

Job crisis for the young

Young people face a big challenge to find job security with a new report showing only half of 25 year olds have full-time secure employment.

Tim Dodd

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Students need cultural memory

The right to free inquiry stems from a long tradition shared among the Western civilisations.

Stephen McInerney

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