The Australian government has advised universities and TAFE colleges to consider compassionate or compelling grounds for Iranian students being crippled by sanctions against their home country. Australian Education International released an online fact sheet on Wednesday for the students and ...

Throwing open the gates to thousands more university students is an historic moment in higher education, but as always, the devil is in the detail. Almost a century ago a breathless editorial in The Sydney Morning Herald reported that universities ...

Australia needs a minister to look after the important international education sector, says Phil Honeywood, executive director of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA). There have been concerns from industry leaders that the sector lacks direction; it generates $16 ...

The next wave of change in further education will be fast and incredibly disruptive. It will happen when education meets social networking and it will be exciting as well as scary, the vice-chancellor of Britain’s Open University (OU), Martin Bean, told ...

The real picture of an institution’s success can be disguised by inaccurate descriptions of course completion figures. One of the greater consumer scandals of the recent past in New Zealand were the revelations that the importers of second-hand motor vehicles were ...

The death of Brazilian student Roberto Laudisio Curti in Sydney will almost certainly contribute to Australia’s woes in attracting international students, says an expert from Monash University. Curti, 21, was studying English at a school in Bondi and living with ...

Australia ranks eight in the academic salary league which was put together as part of a global survey of higher education pay. The survey shows the salaries are no longer sufficient to attract the brightest and best into the sector, ...

Hundreds of international medical students could miss out on internships when they graduate next year due to a “tsunami” of domestic graduates and a shortage of clinical places. A report on the impact of international medical students on Australia’s workforce ...

Representatives of the Australian, Afghan and US governments have praised the 2012 Australian winners of Fulbright scholarships at a dinner in Sydney. Nasir Andisha, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Australia, is himself a former winner of the prestigious scholarship, established in the ...

International students in Australia should enjoy the same rights to access public healthcare as citizens, says University of Queensland deputy vice-chancellor (international) Dr Anna Ciccarelli. Ciccarelli told Campus Review she supported international students who were fighting a controversial Queensland government ...