Australian universities


Unis use offshore agents to recruit students

Australian universities are more guilty than private training colleges when it comes to using offshore agents to attract international students, writes Erica Cervini.

Threat and secrecy: how not to run a University inquiry

Here I was thinking that one of the purposes of parliamentary inquiries is to get important matters of public interest into the public realm without having to fear litigation, writes Tim Battin.

Universities using legal sledges to crush dissent

Today, in Australia at least, those who run universities are behaving more like CEOs of big companies or government departments, writes Greg Barns.

Tips and rumours

Electoral office employees have had their pay cut. Electoral polling assistants at all the booths around the nation have been dudded by about $50 dollars. The rate in NSW for a full day’s work and more - sometimes from 7.30am till way after 10pm - was previously the princely sum of $350 for the entire […]