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Deep cuts to northern hemisphere higher education budgets mightn’t make much difference to global funding league tables. Australia’s economic success could stop it improving its position in the league table of OECD countries’ higher education spending, a senior DEEWR official ...

The people who guide research students also need guidance, argues a research education expert. PhD supervisors need to keep up to date with developments in doctoral education in the same way they stay abreast of developments in other aspects of ...

As a government committee assesses the implications of the changing international education market, the latest figures suggest we may be overly reliant on just one market. The council of education and training ministers has ordered a snap assessment of “the ...

Unis are opening their doors – and particularly to low-SES students, new figures suggest. Australian higher education is on track to achieve both of the Bradley targets, with a big rise in offers for university places skewed towards applicants from ...

International education is worth more than ever, official statistics show. But the good news is a late-arriving message from earlier times, before the industry had a stroke. International education was worth a record $18.6 billion to Australia last year. But ...

If international education’s canary in the coalmine has caught a cold, new figures from China suggest it could be a very bad one. If anything happens to China, we’ve had it, English Australia executive director Sue Blundell told a Sydney ...

College closures don’t have to wreck people’s lives. It’s the lock-outs, stranded students and outraged staff who make the headlines. But some college closures are being managed without leaving students high and dry. Alternative placements for the 77 students affected ...

Mature-aged apprentices in Victoria could be paying through the nose to study if the state’s reformed skills system isn’t fixed. Quasi-market arrangements, including caps on the number of training hours that attract student fees, should be scrapped from Victoria’s new ...

Industry figures are asking how long current tuition assurance arrangements can hold up. An accelerating failure rate among international colleges is putting Australia’s struggling tuition assurance arrangements under unprecedented strain, according to new figures revealed to international education peak bodies ...

Peak bodies are putting student visa figures under the microscope, with official predictions Australia could lose around 70,000 foreign students this year. Peak education bodies will establish a working group to review student visa application figures and forestall unintended consequences ...