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The number of students globally who study higher education outside their home country has escalated 53 per cent since 1999. UNESCO’s Global Education Digest reveals that while China accounts for the greatest number of students abroad (420,000), other major source ...

Former Australian National University deputy vice-chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies has resigned from City University London after disagreements with the university’s council over governance issues. The **Times Higher*** reported last Friday that Gillies announced his decision to resign immediately, although he ...

Flat out, stressed and no time to think is the lot of the modern academic. Joseph Gora advocates organised rebellion. “A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions”Friedrich Nietzsche “Life is what happens to you while you're busy ...

Victoria spends $16 million on TAFE ad campaign Victorian taxpayers will spend more than $16 million spruiking a new state government policy that has increased the cost of some TAFE courses by thousands of dollars, reports The Age. Under the ...

What can TAFE colleges learn from the business models of private providers, asks John Mitchell. What do you get when you appoint as TAFE institute director someone with only six years experience in TAFE, following previous appointments as marketing manager ...

The innovation agenda appears to have overlooked VET, but it is a potentially powerful research area, says Francesca Beddie. I keep reading that innovation will help us climb out of the economic downturn and onto a path to a more ...

Skills reform could cost Victorian TAFEs more than $50 million over the next three and a half years, primarily because of a quiet move to monthly funding arrangements, according to a confidential email circulated among senior officials in the state’s ...

The federal government’s training commitments under its two recent compacts – the compact with young Australians announced in April, and this month’s compact with retrenched workers – have been quietly absorbed into the government’s pre-existing commitments under the Productivity Places ...

Same work, less pay Universities across the US – notably in financially desperate California – are compelling staff to take unpaid leave to reduce their wages bill. But for many academics, it amounts to a pay cut with no offsetting ...

If Australia is having a problem with dodgy private colleges exploiting immigration rules, then the UK government is being condemned for failing to tackle the problem of bogus colleges, which has allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to come ...