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A Senate select committee has found a sure-fire way of eliciting a Liberal view on taxation: just ask the Liberals. A Coalition-dominated select committee has urged senators not to pass the student support and amenities bill, describing the proposed student ...

As Australia comes to grip with My School 2.0, the government has big plans for My University. The My University website could prove as influential as the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) initiative in driving institutional behaviour, tertiary education minister Chris Evans ...

There will be fewer overseas students contributing to the international education gravy train. And they’ll be paying less per student, university chiefs have warned. Universities will have no choice but to lower their international fees to remain competitive in the ...

The financially threatened universities of Europe need more autonomy so that they can diversify their income streams – but staff are worried that new income streams will threaten their academic autonomy. Co-funding arrangements could be the biggest threat to the ...

The higher education sector might not be too happy with the TEQSA legislation, but TAFE bodies want it used as a template for the national VET regulator. By John Ross. A national VET regulator (NVR) created under the federal government’s ...

Employers won’t face a levy to pay for reforms to the apprenticeship system. But they may lose their incentive payments – and their entitlement to take on apprentices and trainees in the first place. By John Ross. Employers would have ...

Commentators say a training levy would not have improved low apprenticeship completion rates. And some aren’t convinced they are all that low anyway. By John Ross. The federal government was right to rule out an employer levy to help finance ...

Offshore student visa applications have returned to early 2000s levels, with the latest figures suggesting most new overseas students this year won’t be coming from overseas. By John Ross. When a human is starving to death, the body starts consuming ...

The government didn’t review the ALTC before deciding to scrap it, an estimates committee has heard. By John Ross The $38 million in savings from the scrapping of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council is “a rounding error” compared to ...

The youth allowance review will see inner and outer regional students getting the same deal – but it probably won’t be the current deal. By John Ross. People should not assume the youth allowance review will end up giving inner ...