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Until last week, he presided over the portfolio that kept Australia safe from international students. Now he’s presiding over a sector that isn’t safe without them. Reporting to a minister who safeguarded the nation’s borders from, among other things, dubious ...

America is no longer “comatose” when it comes to international students, says a New York university system chief. Concerns that the US is upping the ante in the global competition for international students seem well founded, if plans underway at ...

The world’s third and fourth biggest countries are cozying up on higher education. And Australia can only sit back and watch. The US has a once-in-a-century opportunity to reinvigorate its higher education relationship with Indonesia and is going after it ...

The American giant is stirring, with an 11 per cent spike in international undergraduate enrolments. International undergraduate enrolments in the US have shot up by over 10 per cent, underlining warnings from an Australian academic that aggressive competition from the ...

Forget the NBN. A new file transfer program, soon available to Australian universities, has serious bandwidth. University of Technology Sydney (UTS) research fellow Dr Lynne Turnbull takes pictures. Her camera is a masterpiece of digital imaging technology – a $1.5-million, ...

International education’s ‘sleeping giant’ has raided Australia’s giant back yard. US president Barack Obama’s recent pledge to invest $165 million into a higher education partnership with Indonesia showed Australia had lost dominance with its nearest neighbour, an Australian academic said ...

The major parties have expressed support for international education. But actions come harder than words, particularly when it’s not clear who’s in charge. Higher education advocates anxious to fix a shaky international student market with a new action plan gained ...

ANU’s emeritus faculty counts among its members some of the luminaries of Australian intelligentsia. John Malony was attending the funeral of friend Eugene Kamenka, a retired ANU history and philosophy of science professor, when the idea struck. Looking at the ...

No one doubts the need to increase the number research students, but the crunch is: who’s going to teach them? As policy efforts to grow a domestic research workforce intensify, the federal government is yet to prioritise the obvious counterpart ...

Despite encouragement from successive governments, student mobility is woefully low. Participation in international student exchange programs is woefully low in Australia and may be contributing to a national propensity for insularity, researchers have warned in a new study. Published this ...