The good news is, international enrolments are growing strongly. The bad news is, not in Australia. The Australian-based global education and training company Navitas has recorded a bumper year, with revenue up 18 per cent and net profit up 31 ...
More »Omniversity signs up private pals
Private RTOs are set to join Canberra’s home-grown university system. Canberra’s home-made university system has notched a few new likely members, with its vocational arm – still a few years from establishment – now expected to hook up with local ...
More »Slow progress on national VET regulator, despite Opposition support
The federal government has the Opposition’s support on the national VET regulator. But getting the states to agree is always tricky. There’s bipartisan support in Canberra for a new national VET regulator, but that hasn’t stopped the federal election throwing ...
More »Coalition to doff fee caps?
It’s mostly “me too” on higher education, but fees are emerging as a battle front. The coalition would consider deregulating university fees – as well as reintroducing full-fee domestic undergraduate courses – but has otherwise embraced the ALP’s post-Bradley reform ...
More »It’s hello small Australia, as India says goodbye
With all other international education sectors now in serious decline, higher education is about to follow suit. Australia’s once indomitable education industry is now in freefall, with new statistics showing the predicted 30 per cent slump in visas for new ...
More »Visas on ice
Tens of thousands of would-be students have to wait over three months just to find out whether Australia will let them in. Over a third of student visa applications aren’t processed within the immigration department’s own timeframe targets, with tens ...
More »“Fortress Australia” debate the latest blow to enrolments
The election has come at just the wrong time for international education. The Coalition has opened up yet another battle front for the besieged international education industry after the Liberal leader, Tony Abbott, turned international students into an election issue. ...
More »Visa arrangements impede research
New requirements for visiting academics to be sponsored have stymied international research collaboration, a House of Representatives inquiry has heard. A “rigid and difficult” visa system is depriving Australia of international academics and higher degree research students, according to submissions ...
More »An extravagance of rectitude
Fiscal rectitude isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. But it beats rectal vicissitude. ABC local radio in Sydney is playing “lingo bingo” this election. An on-air bell rings every time a politician incants one of 30 clichés including “moving ...
More »Too slow, says CAPA
There’s more danger than hope in this month’s election, according to the peak postgraduate body. There are two big dangers on August 21, according to the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA). One is that Labor could win the election, ...
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