Brainstorm for better policies

Universities can help untie life's knotty problems, writes ANU Public Policy Fellow GABRIELE BAMMER.

Learning from China's elite

Connections between Chinese and Australian students are set to be stronger following a visit to some of China’s elite universities by Crawford School’s Alicia Mollaun.

Top thinker welcomed back

Former CEO of Universities Australia Professor Glenn Withers AO has returned to ANU as a professor of economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy.

Setting standards

Public servants could have new professional accreditation standards through a project involving Crawford School's Professor Janine O'Flynn.

Crawford congratulates graduates

A record-breaking 290 Crawford School graduate coursework students will receive their awards at this week’s graduation ceremonies, with 12 more to receive their PhDs.

Chinese connections

A Crawford School student is to head to China as part of a new program aiming to encourage greater cooperation between Australian and Chinese universities.

Asian education set for HECS

Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz will be one of the keynote speakers at a special six-day set of conferences in Bangkok looking at the take up of a very Australian idea – income contingent loans.

Funding education in Asia

The rapid growth of Southeast Asian nations has caused a headache in education funding. BRUCE CHAPMAN writes that the answer may lie in income-contingent loans.

The ‘impact’ of research carries weight (but ripples matter more)

How do you go about measuring the impact of a piece of research? PAUL HARRIS and WILL GRANT suggest the answer may come from not focusing on the big picture.