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Victoria and NSW are refusing to extend concession public transport fares to international students, despite calls from academics, students and business leaders for the two states to bring their practices in line with the rest of Australia. The Committee for ...

A greater understanding of the student experience will help higher education institutions attract and retain students, education experts told the 2009 Student Engagement Forum recently. The forum, hosted by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and La Trobe University ...

What does the education revolution mean for educational research, asks Christine Halse. Now that the government’s budget and the accompanying white paper have put dollar figures to some of the education revolution rhetoric, it’s time to tackle the hard question: ...

Confident, articulate and motivated by career certainty – these have long been perceived to be the defining characteristics of the average law student, leading many academics to believe they have the package of skills required to succeed at university. But ...

Time is running out for a handful of the 24 Australian technical colleges (ATCs), with their representative association now disbanded and federal funding due to expire at the end of the year. The future of six of the 24 ATCs ...

Universities needed more money: Hockey The Howard government should have acted earlier to establish its big infrastructure funds, including the Higher Education Endowment Fund, according to shadow treasurer Joe Hockey. “If we had our time again, I would better explain ...

Universities may have to wait beyond first semester next year before they can start charging the new services and amenities fee, with the enabling legislation still before the Senate. But the peak universities body believes that while the delay will ...

International students are substantially less likely than domestic Australians to die from accidents and violence, if recent newspaper reports highlighting deaths of foreign students are correct. Fairfax papers reported last Wednesday that at least 54 international students had died in ...