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There are signs that the federal government’s income support package could be headed the same way as its campus amenities package. This is despite Julia Gillard’s concession to gap-year students last week – and even though the income support revamp ...

The federal government risks more harm to international education if it’s too heavy-handed in regulating the use of agents, according to the peak body for English language training colleges and professionals. Sue Blundell, executive director of English Australia, said unnecessarily ...

The study of languages from primary school would engender understanding and compassion, writes Stephen Connelly. When I lived in Malaysia, my picture was often in the local newspapers, either on advertisements for the college at which I worked or attached ...

Practice-led research is changing how we approach humanities research. Now we need to consider what this might mean for ways in which the humanities evolve in universities, says Graeme Harper. Universities in Australia and Britain discuss it regularly, though the ...

The federal government’s green training corps claims it will deliver a Year 12-equivalent qualification after just five-hours a week training over 26 weeks.tender document for organisations hoping to gain funding under the program. The government says the green corps will ...

Consultation is a key theme in a 10-point “action agenda” released late last week by a coalition of six peak bodies, in an effort to strengthen international education and “resolve current short-term problems” in the industry. It will guide negotiations ...

It sounds a bit like the former Yugoslavia: one audit, one provider, nine colleges across seven religions (plus one interdenominational), six jurisdictions across two countries, and 13 awards across two sectors. On the evidence of the Australian Universities Quality Agency’s ...

Chubb, CSIRO ride high on best-paid list ANU vice-chancellor Professor Ian Chubb is the sixth-best-paid Commonwealth public servant, according to a list compiled by crikey.com. with a remuneration package of around $985,000 – miles ahead of the best-paid politician (Kevin ...

Universities once had clear ethical purposes but they’ve lost their moral direction, according to Macquarie University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz. “To fulfil our true purpose, universities need to get back on course: we need to re-moralise,” Schwartz announced at his inaugural ...

An academic has warned that universities are being overloaded with disparate tasks by policymakers who view education as a “cure-all” for problems in almost every realm. Ewart Keep, director of the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance at the ...