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Australia may now be trying to unravel the link between education and migration. But for other countries it’s full steam ahead, writes Lesleyanne Hawthorne. There is unprecedented competition for international students. In the context of demographic change, large numbers of ...

The new AQF needs to be explicit about how it will be developed by building in an expectation of change, writes Conor King. One challenge for any reform proposal is how well it pre-supposes future change. Too often one rigid ...

AEI recently published data on the gender distribution of international students. It makes interesting reading, writes Paul Rodan. Unlike their domestic counterparts, international higher education students are predominantly male (53 per cent), but the disparity varies, predictably, between nationalities. Of ...

The United Kingdom may be able to learn more from Australia than we can from it when it comes to VET, according to Skills Australia’s new CEO Robin Shreeve. In his first interview since taking up the position earlier this ...

Can learning and skilling coexist in the market-based regime in Victoria, asks John Mitchell. There has been considerable consternation among VET providers in Victoria over the past 18 months that new government policies around market reform would swing the emphasis ...

Ramsden joins PhillipsKPA Professor Paul Ramsden, inaugural chief executive of the UK Higher Education Academy, is set to work for education consultancy PhillipsKPA. The HEA was set up in 2004 to improve the student learning experience across the UK. Prior ...

First non-peer-reviewed grant announced University College London (UCL), which last year announced plans to award unorthodox research grants without robust peer review, deadlines, directives or milestones, has chosen its first awardee – a biochemist who will study the evolutionary switch ...

An ancient European university teaching in English is leading the push for internationalisation – and rankings, writes Christina Slade. As autumn cools into winter, the streams of students cycling to and from classes are increasingly bundled in layers of clothing, ...

New taskforce to plan workforce needs for resource projects The federal government has announced the formation of the national resource sector employment taskforce, which will examine workforce needs for about 80 major resource projects anticipated over the next decade. The ...

Educational technologies play a critical role in helping disadvantaged students successfully negotiate their education, writes Leesa Wheelahan. I recently came across an extraordinary finding – there already exists a cross-sectoral committee that includes the schools, VET and higher education sectors, ...