Curtin University has announced its first Indigenous Australian student to become a prestigious New Colombo Plan (NCP) Fellow. Matthew Harris, who is studying a Bachelor of Health Sciences, focusing on Indigenous and public health, joined the fellowship after being recognised ...

A Murdoch University staff member who would prefer not to be named for legal reasons says the ABC TV 4 Corners program on international students could have a negative impact on other Australian universities’ ability to recruit from growing student markets like ...

“Lucrative” research partnerships between Australian universities and China are not only endangering academic autonomy but are also presenting a threat to our national security, according to a policy analyst interviewed on ABC TV’s 4 Corners program. “It’s clearly not in ...

Despite being young, highly intelligent and globally-oriented, temporary graduate visa holders are being underutilised in the labour market, a report from the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) has found. The report, written by Jonathan Chew and entitled Economic opportunities ...

The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has “condemned” Murdoch University for suing a whistle-blower who spoke out during the controversial ABC Four Corners ‘Cash Cows’ program on international students at Australian universities Associate Professor Gerd Schroeder-Turk, a senior maths and statistics ...

Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan has unveiled the details of a university foreign interference taskforce announced during his address to the National Press Club in Canberra. “The information that our universities hold is of interest to foreign actors, and therefore ...

Education consistently rates as Australia’s third largest export, representing eight per cent of the nation’s international exports by value, and adding $32.5 billion to our economy last year.1 While China has continued to represent the top source of this income, ...

University funding is complex. More often than not, universities face funding policies that reflect historical arrangements and national politics rather than forward-looking strategies and principles. According to the Grattan Institute1, international students are now the biggest source of revenue for ...

India has made a firm commitment to stamping out plagiarism and contract cheating with the announcement that all public and private universities will be given trial access to anti-plagiarism software. “We have a two-pronged approach. As part of the exercise ...

For almost a decade now, Australia has been providing the opportunity for many international students to work full-time in our economy after graduation. Commonly referred to as the post-study work right visa (PSWR), it has proven to be a useful ...