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Does Austrade have what it takes to promote Australia as a world-class research and education destination, asks Dennis Murray. The government’s decision to hand over generic marketing and promotion of Australia’s international education to Austrade is hardly surprising. The cheap ...

College ‘appalled’ at Facebook rape site St Paul’s College at Sydney University has said it is appalled by the contents of a pro-rape, anti-consent Facebook site reported in the Sydney Morning Herald last week. The college says it has immediately commenced a ...

Should individual institutions be funded to deliver social inclusion programs, asks John Mitchell. One of the clear messages from the Bradley review of higher education was the need for tertiary education providers to address equity issues, such as the exclusion ...

Business as usual for NZ provider A NZ-based company linked to the Global Campus Management (GCM) group says its local colleges are not threatened by the collapse of GCM’s Australian operations. GCM ran four colleges across 13 campuses in Sydney ...

UK to slash VET spending A leaked document shows the British government plans to cut $A630 million from its 2010-11 training budget, reports The Observer. The newspaper has obtained a confidential memo detailing preferred options for slashing the $7 billion skills ...

Toby Miller watches helplessly as the once-proud University of California system crumbles to its knees. The phones are being turned off. The garbage is no longer being removed from offices. Student fees are rumoured to be going up by 35 ...

Embedding gender inclusiveness in engineering curricula is critical to the long-term solution to attracting and retaining women to the study of engineering, writes Linda Belardi. Inclusive curriculum principles in engineering would not only cause the reevaluation of course content, but ...

The professionalisation of the workforce is throwing out new challenges to VET. But is it keeping up, asks Tom Karmel. One of the eternal verities is that the workforce is continually changing. Structural change is ever present, with both labour ...

Monash’s new vice-chancellor Ed Byrne has been quick off the mark to set the university’s path for the next decade, writes Julie Hare. It’s just four short months since Professor Ed Byrne took over the reins at Australia’s largest university. ...

Go8 to support University of PNG The Group of Eight has announced a new program of academic collaboration with the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. Go8 chair Professor Alan Robson said the Go8-UPNG project will engage academics ...