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The key foreign students’ assurance scheme – responsible for finding new placements for international students if their private colleges go out of business – is in a healthy financial state, according to the organisation that manages it. The Sydney Morning ...

Australia’s indigenous population will grow to almost 850,000 by 2031 and 1 million by 2040, with the growth rate immune to indigenous affairs policy, according to a new study from the ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. But indigenous ...

International education needs better regulation, but what about opportunistic journalism, asks John Ross. Australia’s international education industry has problems. But in the parallel universe created by the media, they’re even worse. International education has been the big success story over ...

TAFEs should be able to collect a proportion of funding received by universities in exchange for teaching part of the courses on their behalf. This is just one possibility that could be considered in the new tertiary environment, a roundtable ...

The University of Melbourne will offer voluntary redundancies to up to 100 staff as part of an “economic response program” to plug the hole left by the university’s worst ever investment losses. Vice-chancellor Professor Glynn Davis last week said redundancies ...

The federal government’s latest initiative to ensure that migrant tradespeople meet Australian occupational standards is an implicit admission that the national training system doesn’t work as it’s supposed to, according to two Griffith University VET experts. In the May budget, ...

The $2 billion Productivity Places Program (PPP) is gaining momentum with Western Australian TAFEs, according to the chief of the state’s largest public training provider. Swan TAFE CEO Wayne Collyer told Campus Review he expected to enrol around 2500 PPP ...

Almost two thirds of international students from countries other than India have changed their perception of Australia as a study destination following media reports about attacks on international students, according to a recent survey by IDP Education. The ‘temperature check’ ...

Vocational education and training should operate under similar accreditation arrangements as higher education, according to TAFE Directors Australia, which wants the country’s 4885 VET providers to be divvied into hierarchical groupings, with those in the top echelon granted self-accrediting rights. ...

The brain drain ends up costing everybody, and the world needs a diverse community of top-level scholars if it’s going to tackle tricky global problems. But to achieve diversity, the global community first needs to develop a common classification system ...