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Community resistance to migration – and political pandering to it – could cost us half our overseas students. International student numbers could halve over the next four years unless the incoming government changes the immigration policy settings, University of Melbourne ...

If higher education felt left out of the election, how about VET? VET needs “its own Bradley review” to avoid becoming the “rump” of the tertiary education sector, a University of Melbourne seminar heard last week. Associate Professor Leesa Wheelahan ...

The American giant is stirring, with an 11 per cent spike in international undergraduate enrolments. International undergraduate enrolments in the US have shot up by over 10 per cent, underlining warnings from an Australian academic that aggressive competition from the ...

Canada, Britain and the UK may lure away our international students – but not because we’ve clamped down on skilled migration. Suggestions that Australia will lose students to the UK, Canada or the US have been exaggerated, according to international ...

With both politicians and universities in furious disagreement, caps – on places as well as fees – remain as contentious as ever. With a funding crisis precipitated by a looming dive in international enrolments – and exacerbated by uncertainty over ...

Forget the NBN. A new file transfer program, soon available to Australian universities, has serious bandwidth. University of Technology Sydney (UTS) research fellow Dr Lynne Turnbull takes pictures. Her camera is a masterpiece of digital imaging technology – a $1.5-million, ...

Pure research in the social sciences has been subverted by knowledge-to-order. Eminent historian Professor Stuart Macintyre lashed out at research policy and the Australian Research Council for treating social sciences like a “poor relation” to big science, when he delivered ...

Both major parties need to rethink their national rollouts of training facilities, according to Victoria’s peak TAFE body. Neither Labor’s Trade Training Centres (TTCs) nor the Coalition’s Australian Technical Colleges (ATCs) will work well in isolation, according to the Victorian ...

A political culture of “followership” means the sector will have to reboot reform itself. The higher education sector will have to take it on itself to overcome the “policy paralysis” induced by indecisive politicians – and an indecisive electorate – ...

Money has gazumped wisdom in the modern university. Universities are educating students but not making them wise with potentially dangerous consequences, according to Macquarie University vice–chancellor, Steven Schwartz. As evidence, he points to the highly credentialled graduates behind the global ...