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Vocational education has just leapfrogged higher education as the largest sector in international education. After stalking higher education for months, VET has now emerged as international education’s pre-eminent sector, according to the latest figures from Australian Education International. According to ...

The federal government still plans to release $600 million from the Education Investment Fund, despite reducing current allocations by $200 million. The federal government still plans to allocate a further $600 million from the Education Investment Fund’s round 3 and ...

Peak bodies weren’t consulted about the decision to transfer responsibility for marketing international education to Austrade. Australian Education International’s marketing and promotion functions will be transferred to the Australian Trade Commission from July next year, in a decision that has ...

The Productivity Places Program has infiltrated state VET systems, fundamentally changing the way they’re funded and administered. The Productivity Places Program (PPP) is the “Trojan horse” of VET funding, according to the Australian Education Union, which says the $2.1 billion ...

With higher education funding in England about to be reviewed, the Higher Education Policy Institute has recommended against a voucher system. England shouldn’t introduce a voucher system for higher education funding because there’s no evidence that such systems work and ...

Undergraduates starting their studies next year look likely to face the lowest levels of amenities and income support available to university students in well over a decade. Two key pieces of government legislation – the reintroduced Student Services and Amenities ...

Australia’s universities spend more on scholarships for commencing international postgraduate research students than they spend on agents’ commissions for all international students, new benchmarking data reveals. Higher education researcher Alan Olsen told this month’s Australian International Education Conference that universities ...

Clinical training places will need to be established in private hospitals and neighbourhood medical centres to cope with a surge in medical graduate numbers, according to the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand. Medical Deans president Professor Jim Angus ...

International higher education students are almost a third less likely than their domestic counterparts to find work when they graduate, with employers shunning them in the tightened labour market. According to the most recent Australian Graduate Survey, which attracted around ...

The federal government should scrap its contentious proposal to tighten workforce participation criteria for Youth Allowance eligibility, according to the Senate committee which reviewed the government’s Student Income Support Reform Bill. Instead, the committee says, the government should monitor students ...