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Australian governments will develop a “comprehensive” international student strategy to improve international students’ experience of Australia “and benefit all of Australian society”, according to a communiqué issued after last week’s COAG meeting in Darwin. The strategy will address issues including ...

The government will offer all workers retrenched since January a guaranteed training place, not just to those aged 20 to 24 as previously announced. The measure is an additional compact added to the raft of entitlements and targets it has ...

The 2009 budget represents the starting point for discussion over a wide range of very complex policy questions, says Michael Gallagher. The 2009 budget provided an unexpected and serious investment that will position higher education well for the future. However, ...

Universities are in a powerful position to promote and protect cultural diversity, writes Alan Robson. Many of the best universities in the world recognise that the education of all students is enhanced when teaching and learning is undertaken within a ...

I once sat on an interview panel for a lecturer B position in criminology. The third candidate for the position was a young and highly energetic PhD graduate who, in adding a few final, desperate comments, uttered the memorable confession: ...

Are training providers interested in evaluating employer satisfaction beyond basic measures, asks John Mitchell. As of 1 July, and as part of the Australian Quality Training Framework, training providers are required to collect and use data on three quality indicators. ...

Training supplement for Newstart recipients A temporary training supplement of $41.60 a fortnight is available from the start of this financial year to Newstart and parenting payment recipients without a Year 12 or equivalent qualification who undertake training at the ...

Griffith appoints sustainability expertnd where he was a professor of human security and sustainable enterprise and director of the transdisciplinary Applied Research Centre in Human Security. Iverson appointed to UOW The University of Wollongong has appointed Professor Don Iverson to ...

Australia is the latest country to be targeted by an international initiative that plans to help indigenous children learn. Beverley Head reports.ware and educational applications, the laptops can be connected to the internet if telecommunications services are available in the ...

School education is the success story in indigenous education, with slow but steady improvement in Year 12 completion rates, according to the ‘2009 overcoming indigenous disadvantage: key indicators report’ released at last week’s COAG meeting in Darwin.o a report released ...