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Winners from the proposed Youth Allowance changes would outnumber the losers in every electorate – especially poor and regional ones – while rich urban electorates would see a scholarship bonanza. The people who benefit from the government’s proposed income support ...

English language schools and universities can gain from last week’s shake-up of the skilled migration program – so long as they reset the bar. VET will be the loser from the changes to general skilled migration announced last week. But ...

Online intro Skills Australia is considering a two-stream approach to funding VET, with companies funded directly to undertake training – and in some cases, to provide it. A proportion of national VET funding could be set aside to meet the ...

The development of the occupational hit-list for the skilled migration program reveals as much about Skills Australia as it does about what’s likely to be on the list. In choosing Skills Australia to develop the new skilled occupation list (SOL) ...

While student visa application numbers are declining overall, they’re rising among would-be postgraduates. Student visa applications might be plummeting but applications from would-be postgraduates are rising, according to the latest figures from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC). The ...

The ELICOS sector has been hit by the latest big college collapse, the Australian branch of a multinational giant, after its bosses took a commercial decision to shut up shop. The late January collapse of yet another private college chain ...

Senate passage of the ESOS Amendment Bill seemed assured after the Opposition gave it the tick last year, and the hurry-up last week. But now it’s back before the Lower House, with changes the government says it can’t accept. The ...

TAFEs have staked their claim to share the emerging tertiary landscape, with a $572 million pre-budget submission. Hot on the heels of Universities Australia’s bid for an extra $881 million in higher education spending, Australia’s TAFEs have staked their claim ...

The federal government has listed the stalled reforms to the student income support system as one of its 10 “key accomplishments” in a progress report on its higher education revolution.ncrease their enrolments by up to 10 per cent over their ...

The VRQA has begun listing training provider cancellations and suspensions on its website – the first state or territory to do so. Over 60 registered training organisations (RTOs) in Victoria have had their registrations cancelled or suspended during the current ...