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Peak bodies are putting student visa figures under the microscope, with official predictions Australia could lose around 70,000 foreign students this year. Peak education bodies will establish a working group to review student visa application figures and forestall unintended consequences ...

The federal government’s university funding and student income support reforms are combining to boost access and equity, Gillard says. The federal government’s policy settings are coming together to prise open higher education opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to ...

The federal government wasn’t swayed by economic modelling of the benefits of tertiary sector funding increases. But it produced similar modelling in the hope of swaying the Canberra press pack. Earlier this year Universities Australia marshalled some new economic modelling ...

Diplomas may have become the collateral damage of the Bradley focus on degrees, according to Kwong Lee Dow. Australia is well on the way towards meeting the Bradley higher education attainment target – but possibly at the expense of meeting ...

The real question may not be whether Australia’s tuition assurance mechanisms should be replaced, new college closure figures suggest. It may be whether they can survive in the meantime. The failure rate of international colleges is increasing and Australia’s tuition ...

The student experience is becoming increasingly important, as universities gear up for 2012. And service providers are recalibrating their activities accordingly. Higher education is starting to be exposed to the types of market research that emerged years ago in financial ...

The federal government is boosting higher education and research exchanges with the Middle East, following visits to and from the region over the past fortnight. Australia has signed memoranda of understanding with two Middle Eastern nations and boosted research exchanges ...

Education agents could be bound by a global code of ethics, if the world’s international education heavyweights get their way. Australia is joining forces with international education competitors to find ways of battling unscrupulous education agents, following an unprecedented meeting ...

Many Indian students arrive in Australia knowing little about the country, an Indian student says. Indian students should make more effort to find out what living and studying in Australia entails, an Indian journalist and student told the Sydney Writers’ ...

The city and the bush have moved further apart, according to a new report on regional higher education participation. Regional Australia’s share of higher education students declined during the Howard government years, according to a DEEWR report released this month ...