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Tens of thousands of would-be students have to wait over three months just to find out whether Australia will let them in. Over a third of student visa applications aren’t processed within the immigration department’s own timeframe targets, with tens ...

The election has come at just the wrong time for international education. The Coalition has opened up yet another battle front for the besieged international education industry after the Liberal leader, Tony Abbott, turned international students into an election issue. ...

Universities are the breeding ground for ideas. Think tanks are the perfect way to get them mobilized, writes Bruce Muirhead. The term think tank is a particularly vivid paradox. Thinking is intangible. Lightweight. The human brain is said to have ...

Do currently industrial arrangements mean that a unified tertiary education sector is merely a pipe dream? The evolving tertiary education landscape is being stymied and compromised by rigid and inappropriate industrial relations agreements which fail to recognise teaching done across ...

Bond University is a prime example of how diversity and quality can go hand in hand. With an entire student population less than the size of the average faculty in a large comprehensive public university, Bond University has been able ...

No one doubts the need to increase the number research students, but the crunch is: who’s going to teach them? As policy efforts to grow a domestic research workforce intensify, the federal government is yet to prioritise the obvious counterpart ...

Despite encouragement from successive governments, student mobility is woefully low. Participation in international student exchange programs is woefully low in Australia and may be contributing to a national propensity for insularity, researchers have warned in a new study. Published this ...

New requirements for visiting academics to be sponsored have stymied international research collaboration, a House of Representatives inquiry has heard. A “rigid and difficult” visa system is depriving Australia of international academics and higher degree research students, according to submissions ...

Fiscal rectitude isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But it beats rectal vicissitude. ABC local radio in Sydney is playing “lingo bingo” this election. An on-air bell rings every time a politician incants one of 30 clichés including “moving ...

BA MA DPhil (Oxon) Hon D Litt (Tas) Hon LL D (McGill, Melb) FASSA, Centenary Medal (11 September 1944 – 22 July 2010) intro Australian and UK higher education lost one of its true leaders last week with the death ...