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The next generation of professional librarians are enrolled in information management degrees. They need to be given the explosion in digital information, reports Jeremy Gilling. The information revolution has transformed the world of libraries. Books are still borrowed, though in ...

VET marketisation is back on the agenda, with the government’s key skills advisory body proposing a “managed market reform approach” to VET funding. And Skills Australia wants a single national regulatory body covering both VET and higher education. The proposals ...

The Committee for Melbourne has called on the Victorian government to extend public transport concession fares to overseas students, describing the issue as the “number one factor alienating our international students”. The committee, an independent network of business and institutional ...

The decision by the Federal Court in Melbourne to allow a student to offset education-related expenses against her Centrelink youth allowance for tax purposes could open the door for thousands of student assistance recipients nationwide, according to an ABC report. The court ...

New legislation to control vexatious legal proceedings will prove particularly beneficial to universities, according to a leading law firm. NSW is the latest state to introduce provisions against vexatious litigation, following similar moves in Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern ...

Monash University academic Bob Birrell has pointed to dramatic increases in the number of overseas students enrolling in cooking, and the number who subsequently obtain permanent residence, as fresh evidence that the migration industry has “hijacked” a substantial part of ...

Concentration on the early years of development, coordination of programs across higher education and forceful messages about young indigenous people’s responsibility to their elders, families and communities – these are among the strategies recommended by indigenous education leaders to help ...

NUS calls for yearly handouts The National Union of Students has rebuffed claims students are double-dipping by qualifying for handouts under both of the federal government’s stimulus packages. NUS president David Barrow said many of the “impoverished students on Centrelink” ...

It would be naive to think that challenging the new equity policy environment, and jockeying for position within it, are just political moves. They are also about what equity is and how it can be addressed, says Trevor Gale. In ...