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With passage of the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill now a formality, stakeholders warn that Australia risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater in a knee-jerk reaction to recent bad press over its international education industry. The ...

VET outcomes deteriorated significantly through the middle half of this decade, throwing doubt on the sector’s capacity to help meet higher education equity and completion targets. Dr Leesa Wheelahan, senior lecturer in adult and vocational education at Griffith University, told ...

Just six years from now, the Victorian higher education system could look very different. Along with a mix of comprehensive and dual sector universities, TAFEs would have more higher education qualifications on offer and there may also be a polytechnic ...

Social policy aimed at early intervention is the key to educational success for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, writes Ross Homel. The educational journey to university study begins early. Children learn first from their parents and siblings to lay the foundations ...

New approaches to healthcare training will focus on teamwork and individualised medicine, writes Julie Hare. Being named one of the best hospitals in the US is no small feat. But for the accolade to be afforded 20 years straight – ...

The six principles of equity are partnerships, pathways, policy, pedagogies, places and possibilities, write Sam Sellar and Trevor Gale. If we are to redress the significant under-representation of particular groups in Australian higher education, we will need to find a ...

International education may be Australia’s third-biggest export industry, but it’s demography – not dollars – that’s driving unprecedented global competition for international enrolments, a University of Melbourne migration expert says. Melbourne University’s associate dean (international), Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, says a ...

International students’ proficiency in English will not automatically improve over the course of their studies. But access to regular non-academic social interactions could be the key to unlocking dramatic improvements in both academic and informal language skills. And while most ...

A federal government backbencher believes the proposed changes to international education legislation don’t go far enough, and should wind back the Howard Government’s 2001 reforms that allowed international students to apply for permanent residence without going home first. Former shadow ...

The Opposition spokesperson on immigration, Dr Sharman Stone, believes aged care and automotive engineering are set to take over from hairdressing and cooking, as dodgy colleges look for new ways to exploit the critical skills list. But there’s a problem ...