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It’s taken six months to pass a Bill that seemed to have the Opposition’s blessings, and it’s going to take another three before the details become clear. Some 1300 colleges, universities and schools will have to reregister under tougher criteria ...

Australia needs to break the link with migration if it wants to fix international education, some claim. But will that really improve things? John Ross reports. Welcome desks at international airports, safety awareness forums, surveys of overseas students’ feelings. As ...

Toby Miller finds he knows a little more – and a little less – about US history than he suspected. I recently collected my third nationality: in the last week of 2009, I became a US citizen. To do so, ...

There has been much soul searching about the nature of Australia’s international education sector. Now the time has come to look forward, writes Stephen Connelly. Last year will be remembered as the year in which international education in Australia finally ...

Melton, on the far north-western reaches of outer Melbourne, is the heartland of the federal government’s higher education equity push. The statistics paint the picture: low Year 12 completion rates, low education and training participation rates, by and large low ...

Universities around the world have trumpeted international branch campuses as concrete evidence that their “brands” can compete on the global stage. They are seen as footholds in new markets and ways to tap into otherwise inaccessible research. But two analyses ...

The government has committed $5.1 million to top up the ESOS Assurance Fund – just days before the expected release of the Baird review of the ESOS Act, which may recommend wholesale changes to assurance arrangements for overseas students. The ...

The government has applied the thumbscrews to the Opposition over the stalled student income support reforms, after Australia’s 39 vice-chancellors signed a letter to every senator urging them to pass the bill. Education minister Julia Gillard’s office issued a media ...

The brutal murder of a Malaysian immigrant in inner-western Sydney has illustrated the depth of global feeling over violence against overseas students in Australia – with international education now potentially carrying the can for any atrocity against foreigners. The 43-year-old ...

Have government promises to get their “foot off the throat of universities” actually occurred or is red tape just endemic to government policy, asks Conor King. “Rather than bureaucratic red tape and micromanaging of inputs, the Australian government will work ...