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The brutal murder of a Malaysian immigrant in inner-western Sydney has illustrated the depth of global feeling over violence against overseas students in Australia – with international education now potentially carrying the can for any atrocity against foreigners. The 43-year-old ...

Greens education spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young has waded back into the Youth Allowance debate with a three-point plan to break the parliamentary impasse and get scholarships flowing. She’s already made a start on point one, introducing a private member’s bill that ...

The key university infrastructure fund might have $6 billion on the balance sheets, but less than half is still in the kitty. Despite warnings that the looming infrastructure and maintenance needs of each university could reach $1 billion, the federal ...

Government spending on universities and schools barely kept pace with inflation in the latter years of the Howard government. But spending on public VET went backwards. Universities might have cried poor during the Howard years. But they did a hell ...

In-demand occupations could lose their special treatment status under possible changes to the skilled migration points test. Would-be migrants from the most in-demand occupational groups could find that their skills no longer give them an extra edge under changes being ...

Loan fees have been canned for Australians studying overseas – but cost hikes are planned for fee-paying domestic undergraduates. Fee-paying domestic undergraduates in private institutions could find themselves paying more from July, after another Higher Education Amendment Bill was introduced ...

ACPET will introduce risk profiling to its tuition assistance scheme – provided the Baird review doesn’t introduce a replacement scheme. Just a few weeks before the Baird review hands down its recommendations, which are likely to include a revamp of ...

While this month’s migration reforms grabbed the headlines, changes made over a year ago had already transformed the occupational profile of skilled migrants – and the colleges that train them. Cooks, accountants and hairdressers have given way to engineers, nurses, ...

RMIT has fallen foul of workplace laws for failing to pay an on-call allowance to a security officer. RMIT University has been fined $13,000 for breaking workplace laws and ordered to pay a former employee over $91,000 in back pay ...

Workforce data for VET lags way behind what’s available on higher education, with studies offering vastly different estimates of how many people work in the sector. While TAFEs provide 70 per cent or more of VET in Australia, a new ...