The future of Australia’s international education industry is hard to call – just like the global economy itself. But reports of its death are greatly exaggerated, writes John Ross. Australia’s international education industry is about to boom or bust, depending ...
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Applicants up, offers down: supply checked by full-fee ban
Unmet demand – declared all but dead last year – appears headed for a resurrection, according to main round university admission figures released over the past fortnight. As applications trend upwards, following the script dictated by economic turmoil and demographic ...
More »Further education: the great leveller – once you get there
The higher your qualification, the more you’re likely to earn. That’s the unremarkable conclusion of a decade-long study of the educational and occupational fortunes of around 10,000 Australians born in the early 1980s. But if the results of the landmark ...
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Gavin Moodie considers the implications of the final report of the review of Australian higher education for the future of work in vocational education and training. The final report of the review of Australian higher education is as contentious for ...
More »VET equals jobs: NCVER
Vocational qualifications may not produce the same career and financial benefits as degrees, according to the latest longitudinal study from the Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER – see **link to ACER story**). But the latest student outcome survey shows ...
More »Higher education a major beneficiary of US stimulus package
A large part – perhaps close to 10 per cent – of the $US825 billion in new public spending and tax breaks over two years that is proposed to stimulate the flagging US economy will go to higher education, according ...
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Sub-headPromiscuity leads to faster, bigger, better sperm Fish species whose females are more promiscuous are likely to have faster, bigger, more numerous and longer lived sperm. A team of six researchers – one each from two Canadian, two US, one ...
More »NZ research quantity, not quality rewarded
New research has raised questions about the impact of New Zealand’s Performance Based Research Fund after it found university economics departments have rewarded research quantity rather than quality in their appointments since the advent of the fund. University of Waikato ...
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UK to guarantee assistance to poor students Minister Manmohan Singh has set out a new five-year plan that involves building 50 more universities and hundreds of new colleges, allocating 19 per cent of GDP to fund education. It is expected ...
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Groundwater centre will help with drought, climate change clinical placements in rural or remote communities during their degrees. Research suggests that health students who have a positive placement in a rural area are more likely to return to work in ...
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