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The federal budget has done well to gear Australia’s services sector towards Asia, the industry body says. Australian Services Roundtable president James Bond said education services and tourism in the region had been boosted. “Australia’s third largest export, education and training, ...

Key initiatives • Rise in indexation rate for government grants to universities to 3.8 per cent. The rate for VET is 1.89 per cent. • Cuts to international education scholarships, fellowships and exchanges funding • Higher education funding delivers extra ...

Both the federal Coalition and the Australian Greens have expressed concerns that the higher education sector will be underfunded as a result of last week’s budget. Senator Brett Mason, the opposition shadow minister for universities and research, said he believed ...

International medical students should remain part of Australia’s “self-sufficient” health workforce ambitions, says Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand. Responding to a two-volume report by Health Workforce Australia (HWA), Medical Deans president Professor Justin Beilby said it was evident Australia ...

In the UK ministers have introduced a system of “due diligence checks” for private higher education providers, it has emerged, as new figures show that the number of their students accessing state-funded loans has nearly doubled in a year. The ...

Tertiary education minister Senator Chris Evans has tried to provide reassurance amid speculation that the federal government’s commitment to the public provision of skills training is faltering. In an interview with Campus Review, Evans said he was concerned that vocational ...

Three students were arrested at a protest over redundancies at the University of Sydney last week, where a police officer’s arm was also broken. After months of at times angry debate, including a hearing at Fair Work Australia, the university ...

The new standards framework may make student charters an important means to protect an individual’s rights to quality higher education. By Lenore Cooper. Student charters have been widely adopted by Australian universities as a mechanism for setting out the mutual ...

Why would someone who can’t see want to go on holiday? Or someone who is deaf? What’s the point of travelling somewhere if you’re going to be in a wheelchair? Surely disabled people just stay home all the time anyway? ...

An industry group and policy think tank have joined forces to develop education programs for higher education managers who are faced with complex industrial relations issues while trying to manage rapid change in the sector. The LH Martin Institute (LHMI) ...