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Online intro Five assurance schemes may be rolled into one, under reforms being considered by the Baird Review. Consumer protection mechanisms for international students whose colleges go bust could be rolled into a single assurance scheme under changes being considered ...

Early this year, reports of the imminent death of international education proved premature. As the year closes, the industry’s prospects are no clearer, writes John Ross. The more things change, the more they stay the same. At the beginning of ...

Online intro Low quality VET providers may have “stuck a dagger in the heart” of the elite universities. Low-end VET providers bear primary responsibility for the bad publicity about Australian education, but the top-end universities could suffer the most, according ...

Any new measure of SES needs to have the confidence of the sector and is fit for purpose, writes Trevor Gale. DEEWR is on the verge of releasing its discussion paper on how to measure socioeconomic status (SES) for higher ...

When Mahfuz Aziz moved to Australia 10 years ago from Bangladesh, the cultural and academic diversity of his new students forced him to rethink how he taught. Confronted with students from multiple entry pathways and diverse linguistic backgrounds, Aziz altered ...

Online intro Help may still be on hand next year for disadvantage students – but prospective gap year students should beware. Scholarships may still be on the cards for low-income students next year, even though the Senate rejected the government’s ...

The new national quality agency will have sharp teeth when it comes to private providers, but not universities. The federal government’s new Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) will have life and death powers over private colleges but not ...

The research-intensive universities have taken their first step toward developing a coordinated equity strategy. The Group of 8 will take a broader approach to equity than just low-SES in the development of a coordinated strategy that is expected to be ...

Women drive participation target While the Bradley review’s 2025 target of 40 per cent of 25-34 year olds with a bachelor degree or above may be well within reach (CR online, 30.11.09), there’s an important caveat. The ABS’s annual ‘Education ...

It could be dubbed the “year of equity” in higher education, says Professor Trevor Gale. And it came in four roughly overlapping periods: January to February: Brace yourself The year began in uncertainty. It was unclear whether the government would ...