In Features this morning

James Harland (RMIT) on the on-line lab. It will never replace the real thing but it adds to the learning mix. This week’s addition to Commissioning Editor Sally Kift’s celebrated series, Needed now in teaching and learning.

Plus James Guthrie (Macquarie U) analysed the University of Tasmania’s financial statements – here’s what he found.

And Inga Davis demonstrates how hard organising university mergers can be. But it can be done, as an architect of the celebrated Manchester merger explained to her.