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The tertiary sector lost out in last year’s mid-year budget report, but it did better this time around. The federal government has committed itself to topping up the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) fund by up to $25 million. ...

Opposition moves to wind back the Youth Allowance reforms appear unlikely to succeed – but the rural independents’ support spells more trouble for the government. The Federal Opposition has capitalised on the government’s lower house minority to reopen the Youth ...

Australian universities need to stop bypassing Brussels when they do business in Europe, says Brendan Nelson. The European Union has developed into a potent and coherent structure, and Australian tertiary education leaders need to factor Brussels in when they’re trying ...

The real beauty of sending top Australian researchers to Europe, Austrade says, is luring top students down under. We’re sitting in a University of Bergen lecture room. It’s about 10am and daylight is starting to seep through the clouds and ...

UA’s chair has been elected to head the governing body of a unique OECD think tank. Professor Peter Coaldrake, the Queensland University of Technology vice-chancellor and Universities Australia chair, has been given the leadership of a unique Organisation for Economic ...

A 2009 roundtable said Australia’s government should consider “hubs” for international students, and the Baird review agreed. Yet, Sweden’s Uppsala University has been doing hubs for nearly 400 years. Sweden’s got a lot of great qualities. But the price of ...

Changes to UK higher education could help shift the international education balance back in Australia’s favour, without unbalancing research. Forthcoming changes to the UK’s higher education system could give Australia a competitive edge in education exports without affecting the potential ...

The British government has spared research but decimated teaching in its “axe Wednesday” spending cuts. Research funding was unexpectedly spared despite massive cuts to the UK’s higher education budget in last week’s comprehensive review of government spending. The spending review, ...

UK government funding for university teaching has slumped so low that Oxford and Cambridge could be better off without it. But they still want the government’s research grants. The UK’s top-ranked university has reportedly threatened to ‘go private’ over dissatisfaction ...

The Browne review has taken the opposite path to Bradley, with proposals to uncap fees but not places. Both fees and places will be deregulated – but neither fully – if the UK government accepts the recommendations from its independent ...