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Rethinking how we train the teachers of tomorrow. By Darragh O Keeffe. For some time now, there has been concern about the quality of teacher education courses. Wave after wave of reviews on the subject all end up pointing the ...

The federal government isn’t waiting for its latest review to wind up before it changes consumer protection legislation for overseas students. Last week, education minister Julia Gillard introduced a Bill to amend the Education Services for Overseas Students Act, just ...

The National Tertiary Education Union has had its national enterprise bargaining strategy exonerated by the national workplace relations tribunal, which says it does not amount to pattern bargaining. The decision by Fair Work Australia last week came about after the ...

The federal government remains “absolutely committed” to restoring campus services and amenities, according to youth minister Kate Ellis. And while her office won’t reveal how she plans to achieve this, in the wake of last week’s 34-all Senate rejection of ...

Australian academics rely heavily on the output of international scholarly publishers. Robin Derricourt recently encountered some troubling quandries of his North American counterparts. Even in hard times our American colleagues do it well. Meeting in the massive halls of the ...

Australian Education International, DEEWR’s international arm, has overlooked Australia’s second-largest, fastest growing and most sensitive international education market in the “market data snapshots” it produces on individual countries. AEI has produced 34 of the snapshots, designed to furnish stakeholders with ...

Northern Melbourne Institute of Technology is breaking new ground with its single seamless delivery of courses from VET certificates to bachelors degrees, according to the institute’s recent Australian Universities Quality Audit. But the institute at times struggles with that seamlessness ...

The debate over whether undergraduates should contribute to the cost of their studies is done and dusted. It is now generally accepted that because university studies benefit the graduate, their employer and society at large, all should pay – ideally ...

India’s governments are developing legislation to regulate educational agents operating in the subcontinent, according to a member of the delegation of high-level public servants, police and education officials that toured the country last month. Tony Zalewski, who represented the Australian ...

Curtin University last week revealed a plan to establish a medical school and has engaged a former WA director-general of health Dr Neale Fong to undertake a detailed three-month study to refine the proposal. But critics say Australia is expecting ...