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Every capital could have a designated centre where international students can find help, info, friends and a representative voice. The federal, state and territory governments should establish international student hubs where international students can obtain information on services and safety, ...

NMIT may scrap some of its diplomas next year after an unprecedented marketing effort failed to prevent a 32 per cent slump in enrolments. Deliberate over-enrolling, an enhanced web presence and the biggest advertising and marketing campaign in its history ...

Austrade will be well up to speed on international education when it takes the promotional baton from Australian Education International. Austrade will have plenty of experience under its belt when it assumes responsibilities for promoting and marketing international education in ...

Australia should work to attract foreign PhDs, but it should also accept that its strengths in international education lie at the lower end of the higher education spectrum. Australia should chase foreign enrolments in high-level degrees, but not at the ...

Are VET learning specialists an endangered species, asks John Mitchell. There are nearly 10 times more commercial specialists in the VET sector than specialists in learning and assessment. More pointedly, the number of learning specialists is very low, at 2.4 ...

The trend towards peer review of teaching is simply a reaction to the current debate on how to assess quality of teaching. It should have been on the agenda years ago, writes David Woodhouse. When I was a dean in ...

For the first time, a majority of young women inEngland are going to university. 2009 saw a watershed in university participation in the UK. For the first time ever, university entrance figures show that 51 per cent of young women ...

The number of women in senior positions is back on the agenda. Why? Just have a look around. Julie Hare reports. For one fleeting moment back in 2004, 11 of the country’s 39 vice-chancellors were female. That nearly one third ...

The “university” name may be sacrosanct, but “TAFE” isn’t. Two private colleges call themselves TAFEs, and many more use the name promotional material. The Victorian government may move to protect the TAFE brand amidst signs that increasing numbers of private ...