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International education earned Australia $20.3 billion last financial year, new Australian Bureau of Statistics figures have shown. This is an 8 per cent growth in export income from the previous 12 months. International education is now Australia’s third-largest export, behind ...

A former politician hailed as a father of Australia’s current tertiary-education system has called on the federal government and the opposition to work together in reforming it. Former federal treasurer and education minister John Dawkins told the Australian Financial Review Higher Education ...

The Australian National University has shot up Times Higher Education’s Global University Employability ranking, coming in at 22. By climbing 10 places from last year, ANU bucked a local trend; the five other Australian institutions listed fell down the ladder. ...

Federal Labor has vowed to pump billions of dollars into universities, and would work to ensure that the higher education and VET sectors act cohesively if elected. Shadow education minister Tanya Plibersek said Labor would invest billions of dollars in universities and schools. ...

As a teenager, University of Adelaide vice-chancellor professor Warren Bebbington thought he would leave high school at the earliest opportunity and start an apprenticeship. Bebbington’s father also assumed this, as he left high school at age 14. It wasn’t until ...

With the release of the final recommendations of the Higher Education Standards Panel, federal education minister Simon Birmingham has announced that the government will soon respond to the suggestions, while flagging other policy changes in the works. In its report, ...

A report commissioned by the National Broadband Network (NBN) and the Regional Australia Institute has argued half of Australians will need high-level IT skills by 2030, and will also need to retain soft skills like communication and critical thinking. The ...

We can look back fondly and see an apprenticeship system with a long and proud tradition. It has been highly valued and has enjoyed a strong commitment from employers, unions, the training system, parents and apprentices themselves. Yet, if we ...

Curtin University executives and researchers may soon be teaching classes, as an internal email revealed 100 to 150 teaching staff across the university will be cut. And in an email to his staff at the Faculty of Humanities, pro vice-chancellor ...

Learning a trade could help you become many things, including a TV star. That’s the message from the federal government in a YouTube video featuring Scott Cam, host of Channel Nine’s The Block program. Amid shaky footage and low-angle shots, ...