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ACPET says the immigration department has misrepresented it over the latest changes to student visas. Just days after a meeting of stakeholders led to an apparent détente with the government, the private training peak body is back on the warpath ...

The lower house may have voted for a student services and amenities fee, but the Senate – and legislative process – still stand in the way. On-campus services appear unlikely to be thrown an eleventh-hour financial lifeline, despite last week’s ...

For a state at the pointy end of educational innovation, Victoria’s election has turned into a tertiary education-free zone. The Victorian ALP appears to have defused skills as a contentious policy area, with tertiary education barely rating as an election ...

To fee or not to fee? It’s a question that elicits very different responses across Europe. And the differences are hampering brain circulation in a continent where collaboration is the name of the game, writes John Ross “Universities say one ...

The regions could benefit from the new migration points test, but any spinoff for academia could depend on the latest review of the Skilled Occupation List. The new points test for general skilled migration could give a shot in the ...

‘Gap year’ eligibility is just a stop gap measure to overcome regional students’ access problems, says Fiona Nash. The federal opposition does not see a “gap year” approach as the best way to improve income support for regional students, and ...

When a debate about whether to have a debate ends up in a deadlock, it can only mean one thing – the latest Youth Allowance imbroglio. Last summer the opposition foiled the government’s attempts to reform the Youth Allowance. It ...

Improved indexation, arguably the Bradley review’s most important recommendation, now appears assured. A properly indexed, demand-driven funding system for higher education moved a step closer to reality last week, with both houses of parliament rubber-stamping an amendment to the Higher ...

Australian education has all but lost its privileged position in the new points test for skilled migration. The new points test for general skilled migration, released last week by immigration minister Chris Bowen, will shift the balance towards older migrants ...

Gender back on the agenda Griffith University has scooped a major award for equal employment opportunity – the first university to do so – in the same week that the peak universities body launched a new strategy aimed at achieving ...