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The federal government has unveiled the carrot it hopes will encourage universities to take disadvantaged students – $540 per student. The federal government is channelling less than 1 per cent of university learning and teaching expenditure this year towards its ...

Enrolments from Australia’s two fastest-growing international education markets are set to collapse. Enrolments from two of Australia’s top 10 markets for international students are expected to plunge dramatically, after offshore student visa applications from Nepal nosedived 85 per cent and ...

Two states will go it alone and regulate their own VET providers – but not those with international students. VET colleges in Victoria and Western Australia will be overseen by the new national regulator if they take international students or ...

International enrolments could be dampened by changes to migration arrangements which have been proposed in two current reviews. The federal government may stop using priority occupation lists in a further shake-up of the skilled migration program. The decision could have ...

Centrelink information, as well as postcodes, will determine student SES for the purposes of the new equity loading – but only as an interim measure. The federal government will partly move away from postcodes – which have been used exclusively ...

PPP graduates are more likely to find work, but they are also more likely to be looking for work in the first place. Previously unemployed graduates of the federal government’s $7 billion Productivity Places Program (PPP) are 9 per cent ...

Online intro Five assurance schemes may be rolled into one, under reforms being considered by the Baird Review. Consumer protection mechanisms for international students whose colleges go bust could be rolled into a single assurance scheme under changes being considered ...

Online intro Low quality VET providers may have “stuck a dagger in the heart” of the elite universities. Low-end VET providers bear primary responsibility for the bad publicity about Australian education, but the top-end universities could suffer the most, according ...

Online intro Help may still be on hand next year for disadvantage students – but prospective gap year students should beware. Scholarships may still be on the cards for low-income students next year, even though the Senate rejected the government’s ...

The new national quality agency will have sharp teeth when it comes to private providers, but not universities. The federal government’s new Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) will have life and death powers over private colleges but not ...