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It depends on who you talk to, but last Wednesday’s strike was either a raging success or a quiet affair which hardly registered a blip on the radar. While the NTEU estimates 20,000 staff took industrial action affecting 400,000 students, ...

Kaplan expands Australian offerings Private education group Kaplan has acquired Murdoch Institute of Technology in Perth from the Alexander Education Group. The Murdoch Institute of Technology offers preparatory courses for direct entry into Murdoch University. The agreement includes the transfer ...

University heads are grimacing at the dawning likelihood that it will be second semester next year before the long-awaited student amenities fee can be levied. The delay will be a $100 million blow to the sector, which had been counting ...

Current policies which do not provide funding for places or give students access to HECS hamper the expansion of higher education in TAFE and run counter to the government’s social inclusion agenda. A new report by a team of researchers ...

The government’s ambitious higher education completion targets have already been achieved for women, but are being hampered by men who underperform on most higher education measures when compared to their female counterparts. For the past five years, just 28 per ...

The problems that have emerged in VET for international students could replicate themselves in domestic VET unless the federal government curtails its “ideological obsession” to foster competition in the training market, according to the Australian Education Union. AEU federal president ...

Establishing standards does not demand standardisation of curricula – if we get it right. Kerri-Lee Harris takes an international perspective. Academic standards are currently a hot topic in Australian higher education – at least among university leaders and commentators. In ...

If the higher education sector is to take seriously the federal government’s 20/40 targets, then there are three main challenges that need to be confronted, writes Trevor Gale. The federal government has set two key equity targets which is driving ...

With the number of learned papers published each year rising, the peer review system might be expected to be fraying at the seams. But an international survey of academics states that two thirds are satisfied with the current system for ...

The widening scope of Youth Allowance has been broadly welcomed, but the sector’s peak lobby group says the Government needs to revisit the issue as soon as economic conditions improve. “It is a simple fact that income support for Australian ...