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Non-education graduates will receive fast-tracked teaching qualifications under a new federally funded scheme to entice top graduates back into schools by recruiting high-flying university students whose career plans involve courts, clinics and corporate HQs – not classrooms. Education minister Julia ...

The Fair Work Bill, introduced into parliament last week by workplace relations minister Julia Gillard, might change universities’ tactics when they square off against the unions. But it won’t overhaul the game, according to the Australian Higher Education Industry Association ...

Southbank Institute of Technology in central Brisbane is restructuring its workforce, amid claims the newly corporatised institute has converted a $1 million-plus operating surplus into a $6 million deficit in just four months. The reports raise a question mark over ...

The short-term future is bright for international education, despite – or maybe because of – the financial crisis. And Australia is in the box seat, as the middle classes in the world’s most populous countries go hunting for a quality ...

Market reforms to the vocational education and training system have been put on the backburner following last week’s meeting of the Ministerial Council for Vocational and Technical Education (MCVTE). And in yet another sign of an impending marriage of higher ...

The US has recovered from a post-9/11 lull in its international higher education industry, but pound for pound, Australia still punches way harder than its international education competitors. A report released last week by the Institute of International Education (IIE) ...

TAFE NSW will seek allies to help it survive national reforms to the training market, according to an in-house strategy document. The discussion paper, prepared last month for meetings with regional trainers and union representatives, says Australia’s largest training provider ...

A Federal Court finding this month will prevent universities from bypassing negotiations with their staff by mounting technical arguments about who’s entitled to raise disputes, according to the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). But the Australian Higher Education Industry Association ...

James Cook University’s Singapore campus has been accused of kowtowing to the country’s political leaders and denying a staff member freedom of speech, after one of its contracted lecturers became embroiled in politically related legal proceedings. But the university says ...

Universities are making some inroads in reducing the costs of recruiting overseas students, but their success is being undermined by the escalating commissions charged by agents. Research by Alan Olsen, director of the Hong Kong-based consultancy SPRE Limited, reveals 24 ...