Education

Legal disputes involving three Perth entrepreneurs highlight the risks that can unexpectedly change lives and careers.

South West-based Challenge Australian Dairy, which owns the Capel brand, has won two awards at this year's Westpac Food and Beverage industry awards.

The state government has announced two new appointments to the board of the South West Development Commission and named Augusta-Margaret River shire president Stephen Harrison as chairman.

Former University of Western Australia researcher Dr Bruce Gray will be able to keep his $75 million stake in Sirtex Medical after the Federal Court today dismissed the university's appeal over ownership of the biotech's intellectual property.

THE opening of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research at the University of Western Australia this week is the next step towards WA potentially securing the $2.5 billion Square Kilome

Regional learning looks for a white knight in an increasingly competitive educational marketplace.

The relationship between industry and educators is closer than ever, but is it a perfect match?

IN a week during which Education Minister Julia Gillard reinforced education ties with India, an agreement between Edith Cowan University and India's Adesh Group has been signed, calming widespread

The state government has won plaudits for many of its reform plans but the hard decisions lie ahead.

Experience has demonstrated that funnelling students into courses designed to fill a skills gap just doesn’t seem to work.

The state government is to create a new department dedicated to training and will rebrand Tafe colleges as part of plans to ensure the state's skills base has the appropriate attention as WA gears up for a big rise in economic activity.

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Wesfarmers today announced two new board appointments including Perth-based Diane Smith-Gander and retail expert Archie Norman, as well as changes to its corporate affairs team.

As a man of letters, it seems Ken Clements is pretty good at writing them, too.

WESTERN Australian regional powerbroker Brendon Grylls said he would not prop up the Muresk agricultural college with funding unless it had a long-term future.

Greater collaboration is the key to turning WA’s bright ideas into commercial success.

NO matter which way you cut it, the 2008-09 financial year was a shocker for investors in local companies, with only 110 of the 730 or so Western Australian-listed companies managing a positive return of any sort.

Nedlands-based Lions Eye Institute founding director, Professor Ian Constable, has been awarded a gold medal by the Australian Institute of Company Directors for his outstanding achievements in the promotion of corporate governance in community-based orga

WESTERN Australia is poised to become a global competitor in the world of supercomputing, which could assist the state in securing the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project and benefit various other astronomy industries.

WESFARMERS Energy has recently signed a major two-year sponsorship agreement with the Asthma Foundation of WA.

THE 83-year-old Muresk agricultural training school is expected to close within two years, potentially ending an important chapter in the history of Western Australia's regional education.

THREE directors from global education services provider Navitas have pocketed a combined $18.6 million from the sale of more than 6 million shares following the release last week of another strong profit.

The state government has earmarked the future possible use of geothermal energy to power homes and businesses in Perth following the recent awarding of the first geothermal exploration permits in the Perth Basin.

Staff at Curtin University, along with their counterparts from Murdoch University, have been granted protection for planned industrial action over wage disputes.

A NEW national research centre that includes Curtin University and the University of Western Australia is aiming to achieve a change in the development of mineral exploration technologies.

Politics is something of a guilty pleasure for Alannah MacTiernan.

More than 100 academic and general staff at Murdoch University have voted in favour of possible industrial action after the university did not agree to a 20 per cent pay rise.

EDUCATORS are preparing for a fall in Indian student numbers amid ongoing negative publicity surrounding recent events in the sector.

A recent discussion paper throws up some good questions about what we expect from government.

In any democracy, ideas have, in the first instance, to deliver what the people want

THE diverse nationalities of foreign students in Perth has become one of the international education sector's major strengths in recent years, and a potential barrier to market downturn.

The defection of Vince Catania is a sign of the Nationals’ growing stature in WA politics.