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IDP Education will refloat the international education research database abandoned late last year by Australian Education International (AEI). IDP Education chief executive Tony Pollock told last week’s Australian International Education Conference in Brisbane that the Database of Research in International ...

Victorian skills minister Jacinta Allan last week revealed details of the taskforce that will examine the state’s international education sector. Allan said the taskforce’s findings would feed into the development of an international education strategy, designed to maintain the state’s ...

International education may be the undisputed heavyweight of Australia’s export service industries, netting $13.7 billion last financial year alone. But earnings even of this magnitude could be dwarfed by the industry’s flow-on benefits, according to new research commissioned by IDP ...

Australia’s publicly funded researchers, already vying with their international peers for competitive grants, may soon run into competition from a new quarter – museums, libraries, galleries and herbariums – after innovation review chair Dr Terry Cutler urged funding bodies to ...

Innovation review chair Dr Terry Cutler’s report, ‘Venturous Australia’ contains much to please universities – but not their commercialisation specialists. Some have lamented that Cutler made no recommendation for an early stage technology development fund to replace Commercial Ready Plus, ...

Australia’s VET system is bogged down by a multiplicity of authorities which have passed their use-by dates, Skills Australia suggests in a discussion paper on future governance of the national VET system. The “extensive array of advisory and regulatory bodies ...

Collaboration is a bit like world peace. It’s hard to argue against. Even competition advocates think collaboration is a good idea. Innovation review chair Dr Terry Cutler’s report, ‘Venturous Australia’, is big on collaboration. One of Cutler’s 72 recommendations was ...

Federal cabinet should consider establishing an innovation sub-committee and the government should appoint successful expatriate researchers to be “innovation ambassadors”, according to the National Academies Forum. Higher degree research training should be extended to cover media and communication skills, and ...

The future of three of the 24 controversial Australian technical colleges (ATCs) was revealed early last week, with colleges in western Sydney, northern Adelaide and the NSW mid-north coast town of Port Macquarie to survive as vocationally focused non-government senior ...

Western Australians nursing retirement nest eggs are helping incubate spin-off companies in their most embryonic form, with an industry superannuation fund bankrolling the latest scheme to provide pre-seed funding for university commercialisation projects. The $3 billion Western Australia-based superannuation fund ...