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Feelings are mixed over the budget’s apprenticeship initiatives. A $20 million budget injection to encourage accelerated apprenticeships has been decried by academics, who say it’s taking the competency-based approach too far. And training providers are smarting over the $31 million ...

What a difference a year makes, as stimulus gives way to stagnation. Infrastructure funding, the big winner in last year’s budget, has been the surprise package again this year – but for completely different reasons. Eight months after applications closed ...

If last year’s budget was about higher education and research, there’s been a warm reaction to this year’s budget focus at the other end of the post-school education spectrum. The federal government’s $119 million foundation skills package – four programs ...

Most international students at private colleges are happy with both their agents and their study experience – and most don’t plan to live here permanently, according to a new survey. Around 86 per cent of international students at private colleges ...

Pound for pound, it’s the world’s biggest education export industry. But the surgery to correct last year’s well-publicised problems may have nicked a few arteries. If international enrolments decline at Navitas’s Australian colleges, there’s a silver lining – a good ...

Australians too lazy to train? No, they’re too time-poor, with almost half officially rushed off their feet. Australia is banking its future on increasing its productivity through higher skill levels. But a leading employment academic is asking whether Australians can ...

English colleges are doing it tough, but watch out – you may be next. English language schools are the canary in the coalmine of Australia’s international education industry because of their sensitivity to changes in the external environment, according to ...

GEOS has gone bust in Japan, despite its Australian offspring’s fatal efforts to bail it out. Three months after the GEOS group of English language colleges collapsed in Australia, reportedly displacing 4500 students and 390 staff, their Japanese parent has ...

There’s good news for HE in the latest international enrolment figures – but don’t pop the champagne corks. Higher education (HE) enrolments have barely been affected by last year’s well-publicised problems in international education, according to the March enrolment summary ...

Swinburne has reinforced its reputation as an intersectoral bridge-builder with a guaranteed, institution-wide articulation program. Swinburne University of Technology will offer to parachute all of its higher level TAFE students into guaranteed undergraduate places, complete with advanced standing, through new ...