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The Senate report on international students has taken a stick to state regulators, and wants both a carrot and a stick for agents. The Commonwealth Ombudsman should assume responsibility for international education, and governments and providers should adopt a carrot-and-stick ...

ACCC gives graduate-entry medical schools the nod The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said universities can continue current selection processes for students to study graduate-level medicine. The decision refers to all 11 universities that use preference and one interview ...

New standards will ensure a level playing field for international students in foundation programs, but the details still need ironing out. National standards will apply to all foundation programs from January 1. But education officials are yet to appoint a ...

Industry and universities share common interests – so industry should back universities’ calls for a greater slice of the public pie. Peak industry groups should get behind calls for more public funding of higher education, according to the head of ...

Are fake conferences the new internet scam? The Scientist has uncovered what may be a new scam to entice people to surrender their banking details to internet criminals – this time targeting academics. Email invitations to speak at conferences in exotic ...

Skills – not schools – are the “overlooked” beneficiaries of the stimulus packages, according to Treasurer Wayne Swan. Most pundits might point to the avoidance of technical recession, the lower than expected unemployment rates, the survival of the banks or ...

Does a tertiary sector simply mean a one-way flow of VET students to universities, asks John Mitchell. Almost a year after the release of the Bradley report, the public discussion of a single tertiary sector often seems to default to ...

Four Queensland TAFEs recognised The International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) has given one of its three awards for best practice or innovation in international education to four Queensland TAFE institutes. The four institutes were Central Queensland, Gold Coast, Southbank ...

Canada has started a national debate on how to measure and define quality in higher education. Canada is looking to Australia and its work on developing academic standards, as a national debate is emerging about how the country should judge ...

Policymakers the world over are realising the benefits of investing in science, as a new UNESCO report reveals. The number of researchers worldwide is on the rise, with developing countries witnessing an increase of 56 per cent in the five ...