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You can’t deregulate one side of a market and keep the other side in a straightjacket. That’s the essential argument of the vice-chancellors and academic commentators who say that if a voucher-style funding system is introduced, price caps need to ...

Student and university groups have welcomed the federal Government’s half billion dollar handout to students, announced as part of last week’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan. But it won’t substitute for genuine and lasting reform of student income assistance, they ...

Australian VET was getting more efficient, productive and inclusive before the current market-based reforms ramped up last year, according to a new Productivity Commission report on government-funded VET provision in 2007. The VET chapter of the 'Report on government services', ...

Richard Larkins, vice-chancellor of Monash University, has told the federal Government he opposes a voucher-style funding system for higher education unless institutions can set their own fees. Larkins was a participant in a confidential roundtable meeting with education minister Julia ...

Australia has only begun to take international student safety seriously because its immigration program is threatened by the economic crisis, according to a working paper from Monash University’s Faculty of Business and Economics. International education administrators believed until recently that ...

The federal, state and territory governments have changed the rules on who pays for training funded under the Productivity Places Program (PPP), with students now liable for a 10 per cent component that was originally supposed to be paid by ...

International education needs to be divorced from domestic higher education funding so that it can spread its own wings, according to the chair of the higher education review, Professor Denise Bradley. Bradley’s report argues that international education can play a ...

A new advisory group to help protect Indians from violent crime is Victoria’s latest effort to safeguard its international students – and its biggest export earner. The Police-Indian Western Reference Group will help shield Indian visitors and residents, particularly students, ...

Vocational education and training is the gun growth sector of the Australian international education industry, attracting over five additional enrolments for every additional enrolment in higher education (CR, 23.09.08). But little is known about the experiences of international VET students ...

Unmet demand – declared all but dead last year – appears headed for a resurrection, according to main round university admission figures released over the past fortnight. As applications trend upwards, following the script dictated by economic turmoil and demographic ...