There are plenty of successful people who didn’t fit in with tertiary education, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Peter Jackson, are a few. By Stuart Middleton.
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Don’t forget to look after shareholders
Complaints by universities that their graduates do not engage with the organisation once they leave demonstrate a failure of the institutions to educate fully their graduates. By Blake Stephens.
More »Wear the global mantle with care
For a university to claim international standing it has to do more than apply a few labels, writes Stephanie Fahey, who reflects on Monash’s 30 years experience.
More »Language barrier has to be tackled first
Assisting migrants to learn English will get them into the workforce more quickly and help tackle the nation’s labour shortage, writes Michael Cox.
More »Friendly guide to the acronym (FGA)
With the AIEC conference just finished in Adelaide and the Knight Review still on our minds it might be a good week to look at acronyms around international education.
More »Dreaming on the stars
Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Blog, which highlights the thousands of years of sky gazing of the original inhabitants of this country England has Stonehenge and Peru has the Nazca Lines, strange standing stones and carvings that are all that are left ...
More »States must concede on student transport: Evans
Minister tells Victoria and NSW to get act together on international student transport concessions. The ongoing refusal of Victoria and NSW to provide transport concessions to international students has become a “real sore that needs to be fixed”, Tertiary Education ...
More »US students shirk Australia
Study in Australia has become too expensive for some international students.
More »Rising Asia – a reason to embrace change
Educators focus on rise of India and China as international education map morphs.
More »Award winner praises government oversight
Rules and government regulations a boon to international education sector conference hears.
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