18 August 2008 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
An Australian delegation of universities will take their hunt for venture capital to Europe next month, as they look to cash in on a global wave of interest in "clean technology" and boost research and development efforts through international partnerships.
18 August 2008 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
A law qualification whose origins date back to the mid-1800s is still finding favour among full-time workers, distance learners and school-leavers.
18 August 2008 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
An investigation of an "intelligent" national electricity network that could slash the greenhouse gas emissions of the energy sector is being led by the Australian Technology Network of universities, the University of Queensland, and CSIRO.
18 August 2008 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
Business is booming for providers of pre-university pathway and foundation programs, with operators reporting record earnings and double-digit enrolment growth.
18 August 2008 | Erica Cervini | The Australian Financial Review
Mat Henderson has a strong interest in social justice issues and believes that a law degree can help him make more positive changes in the world.
18 August 2008 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
When the romanticised view of studying law - instilled by television shows like Boston Legal and Law and Order - dims for first-year students and reality kicks in, Deakin University is using a transition program to put them back on track.
18 August 2008 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
Universities have outlined individual bids worth the best part of $100 million as they vie for the first slices of the federal government's education endowment pie.
18 August 2008 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
Researchers at the University of Adelaide are calling on the federal government to help kick-start collaborative research with Latin American countries to address the devastating impact of climate change on grapevines and wine production.
18 August 2008 | Alexander Symonds | The Australian Financial Review
The head of the peak body for co-operative research centres has conceded that the centres have been too focused on commercialising new technologies and backed calls for them to instead focus efforts on solving specific problems with a public-good element.
18 August 2008 | Rachel Lebihan; Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
UWA fills deputy post
18 August 2008 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
Local universities should follow the US example and provide a value proposition for their former students, writes Joanna Mather.Renowned fund-raising consultant and Yale University alumni chief Mark Dolldopf has a few words of wisdom for Australian universities: from small donations, big ones grow.
18 August 2008 | Alexander Symonds | The Australian Financial Review
The federal government's new system to evaluate university research will allow business and foreign governments to quickly identify universities working in relevant fields and foster greater collaborative activities, according to the body developing the initiative, the Australian Research Council.
18 August 2008 | Erica Cervini | The Australian Financial Review
The new vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University is busy implementing his ideas, writes Erica Cervini.
18 August 2008 | Don Aitkin Don Aitkin is a former vice-chancellor at the University of Canberra. | The Australian Financial Review
The ambitious plans that some universities have for their research output almost make it seem that research is an end in itself, rather than a means to an end.
18 August 2008 | Dan Macsai BusinessWeek | The Australian Financial Review
Banking on a future business career? It might be best to study something else at university.
18 August 2008 | Joanna Mather | The Australian Financial Review
Universities eager to see more young people study science and engineering have been told to focus on primary schools, after new research revealed career decisions are made early in life.
18 August 2008 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
The Society for Knowledge Economics has issued a call to arms to lift the number of "active innovators" in the workforce from 34 per cent to about 60 per cent and to boost the "soft drivers" of innovation: leadership, culture and management.
The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.
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