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Universities caught out by public service ethos

Peter Quiddington from The Australian Higher Education supplement wrote today: As a group, Australia’s university leaders have largely failed in their primary task of arguing a coherent case for higher education in order to ensure sustainable levels of funding through the commonwealth budget. It is difficult to find a sector of comparable economic and social [...]

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Migrating to Google Mail

Macquarie University has announced that it will migrate its staff email accounts over to Gmail: About 14 Australian universities have already outsourced their student email to Gmail or Microsoft’s Live@edu service, but this week Macquarie became the first to migrate staff to the so-called cloud in a deal with Gmail. … However, the university was [...]

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