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Australia’s new peak body for international students has its work cut out for it. International students from all post-school educational sectors now have unified a representative voice, following elections to the new Council of International Students Australia (CISA) in Hobart ...

South Australia’s VET proposals are vague in some areas – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. South Australia’s newly proposed VET strategy has “a lot of big ideas”, according to Stephen Conway, managing director of TAFE South Australia’s Adelaide ...

Five international college closures last month – including three in just over a week – could have flow-on effects in higher education. June was a bad month for Australia’s international education sector, with at least five VET colleges closing their ...

New apprenticeships and traineeships are down – but completion rates are rising. Apprenticeship and traineeship commencements dived by over 17,000 last year and non-completion rates remained over 50 per cent, as the global financial crisis took its toll on structured ...

International education might be Australia’s fourth biggest export earner. But its new promoters will be talking up people, not purses. Austrade won’t fall into the trap of harping on about money when it talks up Australia’s biggest export service industry, ...

It’s not just universities. Student numbers are also soaring in upper level VET courses, according to new NCVER data. The number of publicly funded VET students chasing high-level qualifications jumped by a sixth in 2009, raising the skills-deepening profile of ...

China’s university system is expanding fast – but the continuing exodus of students suggests its appetite for higher education is expanding faster. International education magnets like Australia, the US, Canada and France are benefiting from a massive brain drain from ...

The funding crisis for UK universities just got a whole lot worse, with the new government’s “emergency” budget turning the screws on the sector. UK universities face a “double whammy” of funding cuts and tax increases in the wake of ...

Staff and students love Tabor but some of its systems need tweaking, according to a new AUQA report. The beautiful medieval town of Tabor, south of Prague, was the fortified stronghold of the more extreme members of the dissident Christian ...

COAG might be scrambling to put together a strategy for international students. In the meantime, they’ve put together their own representation. Office bearers for a new international students’ peak body will be elected in Hobart this week, picking up the ...