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Incentive payments aren’t the main driver of traineeships, and many employers participate even when subsidies aren’t available because they’re convinced of the benefits, according to a new NCVER report. The report, ‘High-quality traineeships: identifying what works’, says research findings don’t ...

With passage of the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill now a formality, stakeholders warn that Australia risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater in a knee-jerk reaction to recent bad press over its international education industry. The ...

VET outcomes deteriorated significantly through the middle half of this decade, throwing doubt on the sector’s capacity to help meet higher education equity and completion targets. Dr Leesa Wheelahan, senior lecturer in adult and vocational education at Griffith University, told ...

International education may be Australia’s third-biggest export industry, but it’s demography – not dollars – that’s driving unprecedented global competition for international enrolments, a University of Melbourne migration expert says. Melbourne University’s associate dean (international), Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, says a ...

A federal government backbencher believes the proposed changes to international education legislation don’t go far enough, and should wind back the Howard Government’s 2001 reforms that allowed international students to apply for permanent residence without going home first. Former shadow ...

The Opposition spokesperson on immigration, Dr Sharman Stone, believes aged care and automotive engineering are set to take over from hairdressing and cooking, as dodgy colleges look for new ways to exploit the critical skills list. But there’s a problem ...

The United Kingdom may be able to learn more from Australia than we can from it when it comes to VET, according to Skills Australia’s new CEO Robin Shreeve. In his first interview since taking up the position earlier this ...

The rising Australian dollar will produce turbulent times for Australia’s international education industry, according to economic forecaster Chris Richardson. But the pain will be short-term, with the dollar unlikely to achieve parity with the US greenback, the Access Economics director ...

The University of Western Sydney has developed what it believes is Australia’s first “US-style” PhD program, featuring a mandatory year of coursework before students start their research theses. The new doctoral program in political and social thought, available from next ...

Foreigners who study in Australia before seeking residency as skilled migrants enjoy “a big employment bonus” compared to skilled migrants who obtain their qualifications in other countries, last week’s Australian International Education Conference was told. Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, associate dean ...