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The federal government’s marketised VET program hasn’t hit the right skill needs. The federal government’s prototype demand-driven program for VET, the Productivity Places Program (PPP), has provided little if any training in four of the five fields the government has ...

Connect with your alumni vice-chancellors from universities across the world are told It is critical that universities in Australia become genuinely independent and less regulated in a more competitive environment, opposition spokesman on communication, Malcolm Turnbull says. The eastern Sydney ...

The sector has welcomed UK higher education consultant Alison Johns and hopes she can help maintain the learning and teaching momentum inspired by the ALTC Student learning will be front and centre for UK higher education executive Alison Johns as ...

University researchers have uncovered what happened in the world’s oceans during a previous greenhouse period. The results don’t look good for our near future. Two university researchers have uncovered disturbing new data about the vulnerability of the world’s oceans to ...

Carr reminds the sector that research allocations are negotiable, in response to mounting concerns about ERA. Federal budget allocations to higher education have triggered more controversy about the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) program. University of Western Australia business ...

Austere European governments should keep the razor away from education and research, because it’s “growth-friendly expenditure”, according to the EU president. With European governments cutting tertiary education budgets in response to the global financial crisis, the continent’s universities have warned ...

Europe’s universities and their peak bodies are extending their influence across the South Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Europe’s efforts to build bridges with Latin American university groups could help harmonise the higher education systems of South and Central America, as ...

Labor says better information disclosure will help solve problems in international education. But it’s ignoring its own advice by keeping the sector in the dark over its new consumer protection scheme. Fifteen months after an independent reviewer recommended wholesale changes ...

International education’s worse fears are being realised, with the Indian market collapsing and China following suit. India has all but disappeared as a source of new international students in Australia, slumping to seventh or worse in the league table of ...

The immigration minister has finally wound up a language testing anomaly suspected of discouraging international students. A potential impediment to international enrolments was removed last week when the immigration minister committed to broadening the range of language tests deemed acceptable ...