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The ACT government has left the door open for what could become the nation’s fifth or even sixth dual-sector university. The ACT government has accepted some of the recommendations of its Tertiary Education Taskforce, which called for Canberra to reinvent ...

Vocational research centre launches free international research database Australia does not need an education sector taken from old notions of powers and elites but one that relates to new and emerging ways of thinking about knowledge creation and industry, Stephen ...

Apart from being almost cashless a glaring omission from the strategy, from the sector's perspective, is an explicit commitment to extend Australian Postgraduate Awards (APAs) from three to four years, writes Susan Woodward Innovation will lift Australia from its productivity ...

US community colleges offering degrees are required to demonstrate how the new degrees will support skill shortages being experienced in the community. The rapid growth of four-year degrees in community colleges across the US following recent legislative changes was a ...

"Historical fixes" shouldn't govern how much university students contribute to their own education, says UA. Australia should move beyond an "arbitrary" approach to tuition fees and apply basic principles to decide just how much private funders - including students - ...

Law graduate swaps academic robe for traditional indigenous attire at graduation In his graduation ceremony at Macquarie University Lachlan McDaniel swapped his western academic uniform for a possum skin cloak. In doing so he became one of Australia's first indigenous ...

Recently released financial statements show why international education's backup consumer protection fund needed a $30 million backup in loans. The backup consumer protection mechanism for international students, the ESOS Assurance Fund, was almost $8 million in the red before the ...

Public benefit arguments could end up forcing students to dig deeper into their own pockets, says Andrew Norton. Neither public benefit arguments nor OECD averages constitute a convincing case for a big increase in public funding, according to higher education ...

From VC to chief scientist, Professor Ian Chubb still has much to offer the higher education sector. The kicker at the launch of a long-awaited national research workforce strategy garnered more sector approval than the policy itself this week. Speaking ...

The change in government in NSW - traditionally the state most resistant to VET market reforms - has unleashed a private-public brawl. The peak private training body has moved fast to cash in on the change of government in NSW, ...