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Swinburne University is turning to an American education agency to help lessen the blow of a declining international student market. By Susan Woodward. The long-term prospects for Australia’s international student market still look good to at least one global recruiter ...

Tabor Adelaide has made great strides from its early days as a small Bible college, but has a way to go before it can handle university status. By Susan Woodward. National auditors have applauded a private Christian college’s open admissions ...

Billions of dollars of HELP loans are never repaid. But the scheme was designed with non-recovery in mind, its architect says. By John Ross. Australians owe the federal government over $20 billion in accumulated Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debt, ...

Providers deserve payments for community service activities, says John Mitchell. Observers may be surprised by some of the recommendations in the Productivity Commission’s recent draft report on the VET workforce. One is that VET providers, and TAFE institutes in particular, ...

There’s no metric for inspiration, writes Dario Toncich. The expression post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) could well be applied to the strategic philosophies being pursued by Australia’s universities and their masters. In recent years, ...

A focus on technology has scuppered old-fashioned technical skills, writes Stuart Middleton. There is a lot of talk these days about technology and its impact on our lives, the role it plays in an information economy and, of course, the ...

If the GFC had never happened, a future Australia would have just 1 per cent more tradespeople, writes Tom Karmel. One of the most obvious effects of the economic downturn on apprentices was the decline in the numbers starting an ...

Professor Caroline McMillen has been appointed next vice-chancellor and president of the University of Newcastle. McMillen will take up the position late this year, following the October retirement of vice-chancellor Professor Nicholas Saunders. At present McMillen is deputy vice-chancellor (research ...

Professor Andy Flitman (pictured) has been appointed acting vice-chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology, starting early next month. Currently Swinburne’s deputy vice-chancellor (research), Flitman will fill in between the departure of vice-chancellor Professor Ian Young – who is taking up ...

Swinburne University’s Council has extended Bill Scales’s appointment as chancellor for another five years until September 2016. Scales has been Swinburne chancellor since 2005. He also chairs the Port of Melbourne Corporation and holds senior council and committee positions with the ...