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The federal government’s training commitments under its two recent compacts – the compact with young Australians announced in April, and this month’s compact with retrenched workers – have been quietly absorbed into the government’s pre-existing commitments under the Productivity Places ...

Same work, less pay Universities across the US – notably in financially desperate California – are compelling staff to take unpaid leave to reduce their wages bill. But for many academics, it amounts to a pay cut with no offsetting ...

If Australia is having a problem with dodgy private colleges exploiting immigration rules, then the UK government is being condemned for failing to tackle the problem of bogus colleges, which has allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to come ...

Qxh3 wins. Pollock-Tchigorin, New York, 1889

Poor federal skilled migration policy and inadequate state regulation are at the heart of the crisis in international education, according to the heads of the industry’s professional association and its biggest recruiter. And they say that while Australian education’s international ...

Statistical differences between the courses overseas students apply for and the courses they eventually enrol in illustrate how migration objectives are distorting Australia’s international education industry, according to IDP Education chief executive Anthony Pollock. Pollock said Department of Immigration and ...

Hysterical reporting in the mainstream media fails to give a balanced view of international education in Australian universities, writes Alan Olsen. As an Australian living outside my country, with an elderly parent and a child in school there, I dread ...

Simon Haines goes to a colourful drama festival and wonders why we don’t put such events on at home. On a couple of occasions in the past two or three years I’ve been invited to lecture to large groups of ...

Victorian TAFE institutes have been caught up in a Department of Treasury and Finance edict that severely restricts where they can keep their money – even though they’re part of what the state government calls the “most devolved and autonomous” ...