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Australia’s universities spend more on scholarships for commencing international postgraduate research students than they spend on agents’ commissions for all international students, new benchmarking data reveals. Higher education researcher Alan Olsen told this month’s Australian International Education Conference that universities ...

Clinical training places will need to be established in private hospitals and neighbourhood medical centres to cope with a surge in medical graduate numbers, according to the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand. Medical Deans president Professor Jim Angus ...

International higher education students are almost a third less likely than their domestic counterparts to find work when they graduate, with employers shunning them in the tightened labour market. According to the most recent Australian Graduate Survey, which attracted around ...

TAFEs are being forced to raise bigger chunks of their revenue from employers and international students, as government funding fails to keep pace with inflation. The NCVER ‘Financial information 2008’ report, released last month, shows that operating revenue for Australia’s ...

Griffith, UniSA rank high in alternative MBA list Two Australian business schools – Griffith at 27 and the University of South Australia at 78 – are included in the world top 100 in the biennial 2009-10 ‘Beyond grey pinstripes’ alternative ...

The federal government should scrap its contentious proposal to tighten workforce participation criteria for Youth Allowance eligibility, according to the Senate committee which reviewed the government’s Student Income Support Reform Bill. Instead, the committee says, the government should monitor students ...

By failing to fully fund the Bradley tertiary education reforms, the government is missing out on an investment return of 15 to 20 per cent. The tertiary education reforms recommended by the Bradley review offer an “unmissable bargain” which Australia ...

Further industrial action is anticipated during November as the National Tertiary Education Union tries to capitalise on a number of agreements that have been reached in recent weeks. Last week, La Trobe University announced it had reached agreement including a ...

There are a few truths that are universally understood in the world of philanthropy and last week Professor Eric Thomas shared his version of them with an intimate gathering of 40 invitees at a breakfast at RMIT. “The first rule ...

ACT education minister Andrew Barr has said he will consider splitting the territory’s senior colleges into academic and vocational streams - similar to that in Tasmania. News of the plan came as a bitter dispute in Tasmania threatens to disrupt ...