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If international education’s canary in the coalmine has caught a cold, new figures from China suggest it could be a very bad one. If anything happens to China, we’ve had it, English Australia executive director Sue Blundell told a Sydney ...

Why is Holmesglen succeeding with its degree programs despite major obstacles, asks John Mitchell. The first reason Holmesglen is doing so well offering degree programs is that it is very experienced in this arena, having started 25 years ago by ...

VET teachers need to be engaged with their stock in trade, be relevant and up to date and have a relationship with industry as a whole. By Erica Smith. After some time in the wilderness, the concept of industry currency ...

College closures don’t have to wreck people’s lives. It’s the lock-outs, stranded students and outraged staff who make the headlines. But some college closures are being managed without leaving students high and dry. Alternative placements for the 77 students affected ...

Mature-aged apprentices in Victoria could be paying through the nose to study if the state’s reformed skills system isn’t fixed. Quasi-market arrangements, including caps on the number of training hours that attract student fees, should be scrapped from Victoria’s new ...

Industry figures are asking how long current tuition assurance arrangements can hold up. An accelerating failure rate among international colleges is putting Australia’s struggling tuition assurance arrangements under unprecedented strain, according to new figures revealed to international education peak bodies ...

Associate Professor Baden Offord has been appointed as the chair of Australian studies at the University of Tokyo. Offord is co-director of Southern Cross University’s Centre for Peace and Social Justice and lectures in cultural and Australian studies in the ...

The Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) has appointed Paul Sherlock as chair. Sherlock is the director of information strategy and technology services at UniSA, and has been the director and chair of the SA Broadband Research ...

Former Defence Force chief General Peter Cosgrove has been appointed as the new chancellor of Australian Catholic University. He will be the third chancellor in the university’s history, succeeding Brother Julian McDonald, who has retired after 10 years. Cosgrove served ...

Raffles College of Design and Commerce has appointed a new director for commerce and accountancy. Grace Phan-athiroj started teaching in 2001 as a French language tutor for high school students in Bangkok and came to Sydney in 2003 when she ...