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Undergraduates not that easily persuaded to keep studying Academics who suggest to undergraduate students that postgraduate study is a viable option are not likely to significantly influence their students to consider a postgraduate degree, a study has found. The research ...

Research council accused of abandoning the agreed ranking with libraries academics A small humanities discipline has refuted recent claims by the Australian Research Council (ARC) that its new journal rankings enjoy broad academic consensus. Curtin University Associate Professor Kerry Smith, ...

US committed to doubling the exchange of students A US presidential visit to Indonesia last week has further sealed higher education ties between the two countries. US president Barack Obama told a packed crowd of students at the University of ...

Open Doors report confirms move away from Australia by international students The United States has experienced a 30 per cent upswing in foreign students from the highly competitive Chinese market, according to a report on international student exchange released today. ...

The tertiary sector lost out in last year’s mid-year budget report, but it did better this time around. The federal government has committed itself to topping up the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) fund by up to $25 million. ...

Opposition moves to wind back the Youth Allowance reforms appear unlikely to succeed – but the rural independents’ support spells more trouble for the government. The Federal Opposition has capitalised on the government’s lower house minority to reopen the Youth ...

Education groups disappointed with Government international students strategy The Human Rights Commission, together with Universities Australia and the Academy of Social Sciences, is creating its own policies for foreign student safety. There was general disappointment among export education groups with ...

Current remoteness rating not working writes Mex Butler. Youth Allowance eligibility for regional students is causing much debate, but the discussion seems to be missing one important fact – that there is considerable scope for obtaining a more equitable result ...

We are living in the decade of accountability writes Stuart Middleton Education seems to need a word or two, a slogan, each decade to rally around. The 1990’s gave us “competitive advantage” – that simply made clear to us that ...

Data triggers feed into an automated wellness system to spot students at risk The University of New England is a front runner in a trend emerging in Australian universities to use business intelligence systems to identify which students are at ...