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Private sector VET easily eclipsed all other educational sectors combined – including higher education, TAFE, schools, language training and enabling courses – in international enrolment growth last year, according to new data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research ...

Australian education could have as much to fear from a Chinese backlash as from the media focus on attacks against Indian students, according to international education experts. Educationalists believe Chinese enrolments may be just as precarious as those from India, ...

Victoria and NSW are refusing to extend concession public transport fares to international students, despite calls from academics, students and business leaders for the two states to bring their practices in line with the rest of Australia. The Committee for ...

Time is running out for a handful of the 24 Australian technical colleges (ATCs), with their representative association now disbanded and federal funding due to expire at the end of the year. The future of six of the 24 ATCs ...

Universities may have to wait beyond first semester next year before they can start charging the new services and amenities fee, with the enabling legislation still before the Senate. But the peak universities body believes that while the delay will ...

International students are substantially less likely than domestic Australians to die from accidents and violence, if recent newspaper reports highlighting deaths of foreign students are correct. Fairfax papers reported last Wednesday that at least 54 international students had died in ...

Australian governments will develop a “comprehensive” international student strategy to improve international students’ experience of Australia “and benefit all of Australian society”, according to a communiqué issued after last week’s COAG meeting in Darwin. The strategy will address issues including ...

School education is the success story in indigenous education, with slow but steady improvement in Year 12 completion rates, according to the ‘2009 overcoming indigenous disadvantage: key indicators report’ released at last week’s COAG meeting in Darwin.o a report released ...

Education fairs have been postponed in India in the wake of international media coverage of alleged racist attacks on Indian students in Australia. An Australian education agent based in Chandigarh, north of New Delhi, told Campus Review events had been ...

Universities understand the importance of international education to their operations – and the risks to their bottom line if anything goes wrong. But while they have planning frameworks to manage these risks the plans aren’t necessarily effective, according to an ...