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Victorian skills minister Jacinta Allan last week revealed details of the taskforce that will examine the state’s international education sector. Allan said the taskforce’s findings would feed into the development of an international education strategy, designed to maintain the state’s ...

What is needed for TAFE to take its place as a higher education provider, asks Leesa Wheelahan.   TAFE institutes now offer degrees and associate degrees in five states in Australia. We are no longer discussing whether TAFE should offer ...

Many providers committed to delivering quality training are concerned about the future direction of VET. Their concerns were brought to the surface recently by the low prices offered per student by the Commonwealth for the Productivity Places Program (PPP). For ...

Scientists have confirmed the second case of a virgin birth in a shark. In a study reported today in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female blacktip shark in a ...

Educational attainment of parents will be used as the indicator of socioeconomic status, but it’s not the whole story, says Trevor Gale.   What level of education did your parents reach? That’s the question the joint DEEWR and Universities Australia ...

In the second and concluding article, Katherine Polkinghorne helps universities negotiate their way around Chinaese-Australian cooperative structures.   As discussed in Campus Review last week, the Chinese education sector is highly regulated and increasingly scrutinised by the Chinese government, particularly ...

International education may be the undisputed heavyweight of Australia’s export service industries, netting $13.7 billion last financial year alone. But earnings even of this magnitude could be dwarfed by the industry’s flow-on benefits, according to new research commissioned by IDP ...

Australia’s publicly funded researchers, already vying with their international peers for competitive grants, may soon run into competition from a new quarter – museums, libraries, galleries and herbariums – after innovation review chair Dr Terry Cutler urged funding bodies to ...

The recent Review of Export Policies and Programs has significant implications for the post-secondary education sector, even though none of its 73 recommendations specifically refer to it. However, with a central theme of expanding Australia’s productive potential while removing the ...

There are those who place a $2 each way bet once a year on the Melbourne Cup and others who lose the family home at the casino. But betting on the Nobel Prize – which plenty of online sites allow ...