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All five Sydney-based universities have expressed concern about an international student organisation whose principal representative has made persistent approaches to senior executives as it tries to get a foothold in the post-VSU environment. Senior university staff have reported having had ...

A third of Australian and New Zealand undergraduates “seriously consider” leaving their universities before they finish their courses. And that doesn’t include those who’ve already left, according to the latest study on student engagement. Last year’s Australasian Study of Student ...

Education minister Julia Gillard channelled Australia’s “equal but different” binary system of higher education when she responded to the Bradley panel’s recommendations for a more integrated tertiary sector. “Two systems, one shared vision: a stronger and fairer Australia,” she trumpeted ...

Australian higher education and the world: has the Bradley report got it right, asks Simon Marginson. Are we optimising the global position of Australian higher education? International students are now 26 per cent of all Australian universities students, 20 per ...

Funding arrangements for the Productivity Places Program (PPP) have given rise to “a perverse set of delivery arrangements”, a senior bureaucrat told this month’s Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association conference.

We need more deeply understand the complexity of different student contexts and how they play out in modern, tertiary institutions, says Liz Harman. The government focus on students is welcome. In her speech at the Universities Australia Conference on 4 ...

The Rudd government appears to be rethinking how compacts will operate ahead of the federal budget. Changes to fact sheets on the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research website promote compacts as a mechanism to achieve government policy objectives. ...

Federal government policy is driving rapid expansion of its revenue in international education. This is turn is resulting in universities failing to address static domestic participation rates and poor international research standings, Professor Simon Marginson told the second of five ...

Massive gain for a few years of pain. That’s the scenario for Australia if the government implements Bradley-style increases in university funding, according to ground-breaking economic modelling which predicts the average Australian would be 5.2 per cent better off by ...

A senior Canberra bureaucrat has conceded that more research may be needed to justify proposed market-based reforms of Australia’s skills system. But rather than complain about “evidence-free policy”, VET commentators should themselves compile research in the area. Craig Robertson, group ...