By . Fee deregulation will reverse the "dumbing down" of higher education and the era of "one-size-fits-all" universities, according to one of the icons of Australian science. 
Harry Messel, who was Head of Physics at the University of Sydney for 35 years, was last week awarded the Academy Medal, one of the Australian Academy of Science's highest honours. The author of the Messel "blue book", once ubiquitous in Australian high schools, founded the International Science School and is a former vice-chancellor of Bond University. Read more...