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The major parties have expressed support for international education. But actions come harder than words, particularly when it’s not clear who’s in charge. Higher education advocates anxious to fix a shaky international student market with a new action plan gained ...

Educators love to talk about what they do, but the world becomes a lot more interesting without the trappings of work identity, writes Stuart Middleton. I recently undertook a program along with a group of people working at a range ...

The AQF could be the “catalyst” that binds disparate educational sectors into a seamless tertiary system. The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) should fund the development of professional development material to help staff at schools, universities and VET colleges create inter-sectoral ...

University and student groups have put better income support at the top of their election wish-lists. But they haven’t warmed to the Coalition’s response. The Coalition has upped the bidding for the country student vote, pledging to apply the relaxed ...

We don’t know if Shanghai-style rankings for learning are really feasible. But an ACER-led project for the OECD might just find out. Around 135 million students enrol in the world’s higher education courses, according to the Australian Council for Educational ...

Federal government policy promotes competition in most services, including education. But the immigration department has maintained a monopoly in one area – so far, anyway. Competition is intensifying among English language tests seeking a bigger slice of a fast-growing market ...

More than $300 million from the government’s controversial $2.1 billion PPP – most of which has gone to private training colleges – will now line the pockets of cash-strapped apprentices, under a Labor election pledge. Federal Labor will reallocate funding ...

Melbourne has chosen some elite disciplines to strive for indigenous parity. The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences has appointed an associate dean for indigenous development – claimed as a first for an Australian university – ...

Government expenditure on research and development as a proportion of GDP has declined marginally while university spending has increased slightly, new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data has revealed.uted 72 per cent of higher education R&D – about $2 billion, ...