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If you’re from a high socioeconomic background, and you’ve just finished school with a top-rank tertiary entrance score, you’ll probably shoot for a place in one of the Group of Eight universities. That’s one of the unremarkable patterns revealed by ...

Immigration may be at the heart of the allegations of corruption and exploitation that have rocked international education in Australia. But while the shonky operators need to be closed down, Australia must make sure it doesn’t throw the baby out ...

While TVET Australia’s continuing existence hangs in the balance, the body’s new chief – former Canberra heavyweight Jim Davidson – says its functions in supporting VET system advisory bodies should be maintained. And he questions whether a government regulator is ...

The proportion of 15 to 19 year-old Australians who aren’t involved in employment, education or training is high by international standards, according to a new study for the Australian Social Inclusion Board. But the rate of disengaged 20 to 24 ...

The federal government’s infrastructure funding juggernaut rolled on last week with the launch of two more rounds of the Education Infrastructure Fund (EIF). Education minister Julia Gillard and innovation minister Kim Carr invited higher education institutions, research agencies and vocational ...

Ignore, adapt or fight? This is one of the questions university and TAFE administrators will need to confront if they want to clear some of the roadblocks between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education, according to a high-level ...

Doing away with copyright for academic publications would be “socially desirable” – so long as universities canned their expensive journal subscriptions and used the money to cover the costs of publication, according to Harvard Law School professor of law and ...

In its latest effort to put links with India back on an even keel, the federal government is providing most of the money to establish a new centre which will research relations between the two countries – and straddle the ...

Universities have implemented two of the ten points in Universities Australia’s action plan for student safety, and are making progress on the other eight, the peak body says. A progress report on UA’s website says all universities have now initiated ...

Universities and TAFEs are too focused on creating complex mechanisms to achieve pathways between VET and higher education, last month’s tertiary sector roundtable was told. The meeting, designed to inform the policy debate on the emerging tertiary education sector, heard ...