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The tragedy is that people forget that ‘dumb blonde’ Australia has several PhDs says Simon Anholt Australia’s education product was the key to ‘bulking up’ the country’s soft international reputation, delegates at an annual international education conference in Sydney have ...

International education has been hit by ‘perfect storm’ A conjunction of tough market, economic and regulatory circumstances had wreaked the “perfect storm” on international education in Australia, delegates heard last week at the opening of the 24th Australian International Education ...

Why were you not going to the Government saying we need tougher crackdowns? Former federal Liberal MP Bruce Baird delivered some strong words to the international education sector last week, calling on it to accept more accountability for the downturn ...

International Education has been left behind in lobbying stakes Speakers at the Australian International Education Conference in Sydney last week urged the international education sector to come together to raise its profile and standing. From Peter Speldewinde of the Department ...

The Browne review has taken the opposite path to Bradley, with proposals to uncap fees but not places. Both fees and places will be deregulated – but neither fully – if the UK government accepts the recommendations from its independent ...

It will be 2017 before there is equality in upper echelons of universities Women are failing to crash through the glass ceiling in Australian universities with Melbourne University the only Group of Eight member where the majority of senior general ...

Browne review has given UK universities an idea of the scale of cuts to their teaching budgets, but research remains the big unknown, writes John Ross. At the end of 2008, Denise Bradley handed over her recipe for higher education ...

Australia’s failure to deal with racism contributes to the vulnerability of international students The lack of evidence-based policy on race relations is one of the biggest problems facing educators who try to research or tackle racism, a conference in Sydney ...

Link between educational attainment and health outcomes confirmed Early high school leavers are up to 20 per cent less likely to report being in good health in later life than those with a tertiary education. Early school leavers are also ...

University of Western Australia project on how emotions affect social change The Australian Research Council (ARC) recently approved the largest-ever grant to an Australian humanities project – $24.25 million to the University of Western Australia (UWA) to investigate the history ...