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Victoria’s fully competitive training system is fostering dubious claims, and experts warn the problems could run far deeper. A Victorian education agent has enticed companies to enrol their workers in four-day government-funded diploma courses by suggesting they can make a ...

The government has claimed credit for record student numbers. But the latest figures suggest the labour market was the main driver of a 17-year spike in university applications last year - and of this year's much more modest growth. The ...

Among challenges will be convincing people who have not seen the transformative nature of a university education first hand what it means and why the cost is worth it, write Larissa Behrendt and Steven Larkin. Despite the good will of ...

While the donation of the Picasso drew quite a bit of media attention in Australia universities here have recently been in receipt of considerable funds from philanthropists. With the announcement last week that London art auction house Christie’s would offer ...

Professor Simon Marginson is a frequent commentator on university rankings. Now he will directly counsel one of the world's most respected ones. Australian higher education analyst Professor Simon Marginson will join eight global peers to adviseShanghaiJiaoTongUniversityon its annual ranking of ...

Seven days out from this year's federal budget - an anorexic one, if government pre-commentary can be believed - a de-facto Bradley report on VET will warn the government not to fatten up training on the cheap. A week before ...

More disadvantaged students applied for university last year. But not enough, according to the experts. Newly released DEEWR statistics suggest universities are making progress towards the government’s equity target, with the proportion of low socioeconomic status (SES) applicants increasing a ...

The gap between indigenous and non-indigenous students across many indicators has widened in the last decade. Just 10,201 out of 766,028 domestic students are indigenous well below the parity target of 3.1 per cent. The recently announced review into indigenous ...

It's been 18 years since the University of Wollongong became the first foreign higher education operation in the UAE. Challenges have arisen, but the university intends to stay and keep growing. When it comes to internationalisation of higher education, theUniversityofWollongonghas ...

Not allowing students to use their CSP funding at a private higher education provider denies student choice and means a true demand-driven system cannot be achieved, writes Robert Stable. Even with the growth in non-government higher education inAustraliaover the last ...