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Toby Miller finds he knows a little more – and a little less – about US history than he suspected. I recently collected my third nationality: in the last week of 2009, I became a US citizen. To do so, ...

There has been much soul searching about the nature of Australia’s international education sector. Now the time has come to look forward, writes Stephen Connelly. Last year will be remembered as the year in which international education in Australia finally ...

The government has applied the thumbscrews to the Opposition over the stalled student income support reforms, after Australia’s 39 vice-chancellors signed a letter to every senator urging them to pass the bill. Education minister Julia Gillard’s office issued a media ...

Have government promises to get their “foot off the throat of universities” actually occurred or is red tape just endemic to government policy, asks Conor King. “Rather than bureaucratic red tape and micromanaging of inputs, the Australian government will work ...

Cash cows or backdoor migrants – what are the realities of international students and skilled migration? By Shanthi Robertson The student-migrants at the centre of the recent skilled migration changes have been cast in contradictory roles by the Australian media. ...

Can public secondary schools teach VET providers anything about innovation, asks John Mitchell. In the minds of many VET providers, innovation in relation to student engagement is not a top priority at the moment. Providers are preoccupied with several new ...

A culture of continuous improvement is least effective in the most needy, writes Anita Roberts. Who wants to talk about continuous improvement? Within VET, and probably elsewhere, it is difficult to use the term without accompanying grimaces and eye-rolling. It ...

Bradley appointed as independent director of Seek Online job advertising company Seek has appointed former University of South Australia vice-chancellor Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley as an independent director. Bradley, who chaired the national review of higher education in 2008, is ...

Universities are constantly reassessing their computing needs, writes Beverley Head. Curtin University is beta testing a computing solution that will eventually allow the university to decide which of its 180 computing applications it will migrate to a cloud-based service. Instead ...

Yale president Richard Levin says the rise of Asian universities will give the west a run for its money. The unprecedented investment in higher education in China is a “positive sum game” for universities in the western elite. Richard C ...