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Private health insurance giant BUPA has donated $100,000 to an international student assurance fund, OSAssurance, which is run by the NLC – the organisation that all five Sydney universities have agreed not to endorse (CR, 28.04.09). CR understands the NLC, ...

Ring the office of the Overseas Student Support Network Australia, and you’re greeted with a recorded message of someone coughing loudly into the mouthpiece. It’s a bit freaky in these times of swine flu. A generic message then informs you ...

With just one higher education degree, the Gordon Institute of TAFE may be AUQA’s smallest audit. But the Gordon, as it is called by Geelong locals, still produced plenty of challenges for the AUQA team. It wasn’t so much about ...

Earn or learn was the message from the Rudd government to young Australians last week. And TAFE colleges across the country should be gearing up for a wave of new students – around 58,000 – who will be taking up ...

All five Sydney-based universities have expressed concern about an international student organisation whose principal representative has made persistent approaches to senior executives as it tries to get a foothold in the post-VSU environment. Senior university staff have reported having had ...

The Rudd government appears to be rethinking how compacts will operate ahead of the federal budget. Changes to fact sheets on the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research website promote compacts as a mechanism to achieve government policy objectives. ...

NUS calls for yearly handouts The National Union of Students has rebuffed claims students are double-dipping by qualifying for handouts under both of the federal government’s stimulus packages. NUS president David Barrow said many of the “impoverished students on Centrelink” ...

Education Australia – the holding company which has a 50 per cent stake in IDP Education – last week announced it would pass on $43 million to its 38 university shareholders. Chair of Education Australia Professor Ian Young said the ...

More flexibility, better employment prospects and improved student retention are the expected outcomes following a move by Swinburne University to adopt a new flexible majors and minors model of undergraduate education. The model, to be introduced at the beginning of ...

The momentum for 15 Australian universities that do not have an affiliation with a formal grouping may be slowly building. And despite differences with the unaligned universities, there is enough sense of common purpose and strength in numbers for a ...