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The federal review of international education may extend to areas such as curriculum and students’ language abilities – but only if they’re relevant to student welfare and consumer issues, according to review head Bruce Baird. Baird, a former state and ...

Planning the development of so-called academic achievement standards has just begun, but already the process appears flawed. Accreditation might provide the answer, says Roger March. Let’s pretend you’re a parent of Daniel, a Year 12 student destined for university next ...

The Rudd government’s green jobs and training initiative needs to be applauded, but there are many unanswered questions as to how it will be delivered at the coalface, writes Larry Smith. On 30 July, the Rudd government announced funding for ...

If Professor Steven Schwartz’s early months as vice-chancellor of Macquarie University in 2006 was notable for the ugly and very public spat with its former vice-chancellor Di Yerbury, then last week’s AUQA might well have left people asking Di Who? ...

UWS no longer has accreditation for its construction management degree after the professional body that oversees it refused to recognise the course. The Australian Institute of Building did not renew UWS’s accreditation after it expired earlier this year. The AIB ...

If you’re from a high socioeconomic background, and you’ve just finished school with a top-rank tertiary entrance score, you’ll probably shoot for a place in one of the Group of Eight universities. That’s one of the unremarkable patterns revealed by ...

Immigration may be at the heart of the allegations of corruption and exploitation that have rocked international education in Australia. But while the shonky operators need to be closed down, Australia must make sure it doesn’t throw the baby out ...

Professor Di Yerbury, former vice-chancellor of Macquarie University, has received an apology from Fairfax, publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald. The apology, which was printed on 8 August, related to several articles published by the paper in February 2007. The ...

The student-demand driven world of 2012 is just around the corner. Conor King ponders what role there will be, if any, for tertiary admissions centres.ents selecting courses. TACs can usefully facilitate this, primarily through being a single, if state-focused, point ...

Australia’s education system has much to be proud of, but unless decisive action is taken very soon, international education will be severely damaged, writes Ian Young.s particularly the case with VET, where there are more than 4000 providers regulated by ...