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US academics say they like the idea of working overseas, but a new survey shows they are motivated by unrealistic fantasy while hindered by ignorance of overseas institutions. Julie Hare reports. The economic downturn in the US and its devastating ...

COAG has adopted Bruce Baird’s recommendation to extend the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s jurisdiction to international education. But other Baird recommendations remain in limbo. John Ross reports. Education providers will have to allow complaints and appeals by their international students to be ...

Separate national regulatory arrangements – however temporary – could sink a permanent fault line between HE and VET. John Ross reports. The integrated tertiary education sector envisaged by the Bradley review could be brought unstuck by the separate evolution of ...

Under its Compass program to improve equity outcomes, last week Sydney University gave 600 eight year olds their first taste of university. They’re known as the baby bonus generation or Generation Z and they will be the most formally educated ...

A new survey has found what students themselves like and dislike about Australian transnational programs in southeast Asia. A majority of Australia’s transnational students consider their programs effective and worthwhile and are satisfied with their lecturers – both Australian and ...

Research into occupational pay packets shines new light on the persistent skills shortages in hairdressing and cooking. The ‘pin-up’ occupations for low-quality training in the international VET sector – cooking and hairdressing – also offer little to domestic students, according ...

Private providers could help meet the 20 per cent equity target as well as the 40 per cent attainment target, ACPET argues. John Ross reports. When the federal government responded to the Bradley review last year it showed it hadn’t ...

New demands are being placed on education. Globalisation and increased competition are heightening the need for workers able to engage with organisational goals, share information, work in teams, make appropriate decisions, and be enterprising to improve productivity. Globalisation and international ...

John Ross was right to report the problems with the Victorian government’s decision to restrict its subsidised vocational education for students over 19 years to qualifications at a higher level than any qualification they already hold (CR, 19.04.10).He might have ...

Being able to accurately measure a student’s socioeconomic background is critical under the new policy agenda. But what’s the answer? By Sam Sellar and Colin MacMullin. The federal government is developing a new measure of socioeconomic status (SES) for the ...