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The federal government has challenged recent Fairfax newspaper reports about international student deaths in Australia, claiming the figures quoted in the articles don’t tally with its own data. The 1 July reports in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, based on coronial ...

Many researchers don’t need a large grant to carry out their research, but the system drives them to apply nevertheless. By Tom Clark. I hate Australian Research Council grants. I don’t hate the ARC staff. I’ve only ever been impressed ...

VET is increasingly the sector of choice for indigenous Australians, who are enrolling in vocational courses at more than double the rate of the overall population, according to data released last week by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research ...

Private sector VET easily eclipsed all other educational sectors combined – including higher education, TAFE, schools, language training and enabling courses – in international enrolment growth last year, according to new data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research ...

Australian education could have as much to fear from a Chinese backlash as from the media focus on attacks against Indian students, according to international education experts. Educationalists believe Chinese enrolments may be just as precarious as those from India, ...

The decision in April to award Holmesglen TAFE 40 publicly funded places to its controversial bachelor of nursing degree runs counter to the federal government’s student entitlement policy, according to a higher education policy expert. Gavin Moodie, senior policy advisor ...

If the phrase “punching about its weight” has a namesake in higher education, then it must be the University of Western Australia. “UWA is an excellent, high quality, well-managed university with a bold vision, a strategic objective to becoming a ...

The University of Melbourne and Griffith University lead the field in teaching and learning in 2009, having been awarded nine citations each in this year’s Australian Learning and Teaching Council citations. In all, 40 institutions – all 38 universities and ...

Technology alone is not the panacea to improving teaching quality, writes Martin Bridgstock. Macquarie University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz makes some good points in his article ‘Lost in the past’ (CR, 22.06.09). Alas, he also seems confused on some key points. ...

VET in schools is acting as an important provider of apprenticeship opportunities for female students, stepping in when the private sector fails to cater for them. A report released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 12 900 ...