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The number of students receiving government loans to undertake study stints overseas is expected to reach 3205 in 2009, up from 2620 in 2008 and 860 in 2005, when the loans, known as OS-HELP, were introduced in 2005. And the ...

The brain drain ends up costing everybody, and the world needs a diverse community of top-level scholars if it’s going to tackle tricky global problems. But to achieve diversity, the global community first needs to develop a common classification system ...

Australia should not be turning the skilled migration tap off and on, despite the global financial crisis, a visiting expert on migration policy has warned. Dr Khalid Koser, director of the new threats and security program at the Geneva Centre ...

The number of students globally who study higher education outside their home country has escalated 53 per cent since 1999. UNESCO’s Global Education Digest reveals that while China accounts for the greatest number of students abroad (420,000), other major source ...

Former Australian National University deputy vice-chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies has resigned from City University London after disagreements with the university’s council over governance issues. The **Times Higher*** reported last Friday that Gillies announced his decision to resign immediately, although he ...

Flat out, stressed and no time to think is the lot of the modern academic. Joseph Gora advocates organised rebellion. “A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions”Friedrich Nietzsche “Life is what happens to you while you're busy ...

Victoria spends $16 million on TAFE ad campaign Victorian taxpayers will spend more than $16 million spruiking a new state government policy that has increased the cost of some TAFE courses by thousands of dollars, reports The Age. Under the ...

What can TAFE colleges learn from the business models of private providers, asks John Mitchell. What do you get when you appoint as TAFE institute director someone with only six years experience in TAFE, following previous appointments as marketing manager ...

The innovation agenda appears to have overlooked VET, but it is a potentially powerful research area, says Francesca Beddie. I keep reading that innovation will help us climb out of the economic downturn and onto a path to a more ...

Skills reform could cost Victorian TAFEs more than $50 million over the next three and a half years, primarily because of a quiet move to monthly funding arrangements, according to a confidential email circulated among senior officials in the state’s ...