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Private providers will swallow staff: Milbourne Universities will soon face an upsurge in local competition for academic staff, according to UTS vice-chancellor Professor Ross Milbourne. Milbourne told last month’s Australian higher education congress that the “gearing up” of the Chinese ...

The federal Opposition has called for international student recruitment agents to be regulated by the body responsible for migration agents, after the government claimed to have broken up a student migration racket. But the government says such a move would ...

The federal government must extend its digital education revolution (DER) program to the higher education and vocational training sectors in order to meet its own education and social inclusion targets, according to a new report funded by the Department of ...

The Victorian government will develop its own higher education plan to boost research and increase the number of university places in the state, Victorian skills minister Jacinta Allan told a Melbourne conference last week. While it’s been some years – ...

Joseph Gora has some suggestions for converting the unread and the unreadable into something to behold. The unit information guide (UIG), or its simpler derivative, the unit guide, is a document imbued with great significance in the wacky world of ...

Australia punches well above its weight in sport by investing in sports we choose to excel at. Higher education should take a leaf from the sporting book. We cannot afford a system in which all universities are effectively comprehensive, says ...

Does the National Quality Council have the time and appetite for a thorough review of VET issues, asks John Mitchell. The VET sector is undertaking a major policy review, and anecdotal indications are that it won’t resolve all the issues. ...

PPP jobseeker completions reach 33,000 Almost 92,000 job seekers have enrolled in the $2 billion Productivity Places Program in just under 12 months, with 73,500 jobseekers commencing training and almost 33,000 completing training. NSW completions totalled 12,000, Victoria 10,700, Queensland ...

VET will buddy up with higher education (HE) to help make Denise Bradley’s integrated tertiary sector a reality, predicts Philip Bullock, chair of Skills Australia. But VET’s main players may struggle to integrate with each other, Bullock told a Sydney ...

Economic downturn affects US study abroad plans Applications to many overseas study programs this northern summer and autumn are down, and the economy may be to blame, according to a survey of study-abroad directors in US universities. More than half ...