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If overseas students are an untapped tourism market, what about their friends and relatives? The contribution of international students to Australia’s tourism industry may have been underestimated, with indications that they could lure a million or more friends and family ...

A Chinese news organ’s criticisms of its home-grown universities could say more about geo-political positioning than student perceptions. China might be Australia’s biggest education export market, but many believe it’s going to be our biggest competitor. Commentators point to the ...

Conventional wisdom is that job booms lead to empty lecture rooms. But the biggest spikes in university applications have come from Queensland and Western Australia. The increased appetite for higher education this year has been most pronounced in Queensland and ...

The federal government has started implementing Bruce Baird’s recommendations – but too late for yet another international college. The federal government has introduced the first batch of Baird recommendations into Parliament and started consulting on more changes, in its latest ...

Diplomas and advanced diplomas will be the collateral damage of the federal government’s push to increase demand for higher education, according to the Group of Eight.ted that in the most likely future demand scenario, Australia would achieve only 28,000 more ...

Tasmania’s three-way tussle continues over education funding, but the combatants agree that Tasmania Tomorrow is very yesterday. It’s back to the future for the island state. The Tasmania Tomorrow reforms have unravelled, with two of the three post-Year 10 educational ...

The new UK government is looking to corporations rather than institutions to lead the country out of recession. The peak universities body in the UK – like its Australian counterpart – talks up its members’ recession-busting qualities. UK universities add ...

Stronger registration conditions for RTOs, which kick in this week, echo the evolving changes in the regulation of international training. The “stronger gateway” for international training providers is being replicated in the domestic training sector, with tougher registration conditions and ...

It’s been more than 20 years between drinks, but John Dawkins will command a key post in the new higher education revolution. Earlier this month the country’s education and training ministers decided to temporarily retain the services of the doomed ...

Dwindling school enrolments in the years ahead will impede progress toward the Bradley attainment target, new modelling suggests. The 13,000-strong spike in the number of undergraduate university places offered this year won’t be enough to achieve the Bradley higher education ...