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European research is experiencing similar problems to that in Australia, with publication obsessions and time-starved doctoral students. But Europe is heading the opposite way with honours programs. The increasing use of publication metrics to judge research is prioritising quantity over ...

The National Audit and Registration Agency (NARA) should have been selected as the national VET regulator, according to the CEO of a Melbourne-based private training provider. Brent Quill, CEO of Training for Work, told the recent Policy in the Pub ...

Canada’s biggest province is targeting international PhDs as part of a wider program of tertiary education reforms, including an ambitious domestic participation target. International doctoral students graduating from universities in Ontario will no longer need offers of employment before they’re ...

The latest changes to student visa processing arrangements seem reasonable enough, but ACPET says they could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. The peak private education body has come out swinging against the latest changes to student visa ...

As the government defers the release of its latest bombshell – the new occupations list for skilled migration – onto the international education industry, major hospitality training providers are questioning the immigration department’s role in the indust The Department of ...

The former US president has signed up as figurehead of a global private university network with an Australian presence. Former US President Bill Clinton has accepted a role as “honorary chancellor” of Laureate International Universities, a global network of 48 ...

Swinburne’s new articulation arrangements owe as much to the new demand-driven system as its bridge-building ethos. The federal government’s new higher education (HE) funding framework has converged with curriculum design to make institution-wide articulation a practical possibility at Swinburne University ...

Swinburne’s new academic board will sit comfortably with the emerging tertiary architecture. Swinburne University of Technology has revealed plans to establish a single academic board for its higher education and TAFE divisions, bringing it in line with Victoria’s other three ...

UA has gone into bat for VET as well as universities, saying a relatively modest tertiary education funding hike could make Australia’s pay packet 8 per cent bigger by 2040. The federal government can discourage the re-emergence of a two-speed ...

Australia needs to think laterally, and explore what’s happening overseas, to find new ways of encouraging people to sign up for apprenticeships – and then stick with them. Income-contingent loans, tax rebates, tax credits, industry levies and even early access ...