Universities Australia is calling for perspective as a new debate about uni dropouts kicks off, by pointing out that 7 out of 10 students complete their degree within nine years. This is despite the same federal Education Department data showing that ...
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As it strong-arms universities to become more transparent about graduate outcomes, the federal government has named the country’s best and worst performing institutions, when it comes to completion rates, for the first time. The new Federal Education Department statistics show ...
More »UWA promotes Freshwater to vice-chancellor
The University of Western Australia has elevated one of its senior executives to vice-chancellor. Professor Dawn Freshwater, who was acting vice-chancellor after professor Paul Johnson announced his departure from the role, has been selected as his permanent replacement. UWA chancellor Dr ...
More »ASM announces new physical and digital campuses
A leading private higher education provider has opened a new campus in the heart of Melbourne. The Australian School of Management’s new Flinders Street location will offer students a range of bachelor degrees, associate degrees and diplomas in business and ...
More »Hotcourses sale to net British politician £14 million
International student recruitment firm IDP Education has acquired Hotcourses Group for £30.1 million ($48.6 million), resulting in a likely payout of £14.4 million ($23.2 million) for UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Hotcourses Group owns several sites that allow prospective students ...
More »International students trickle into UK, flood into US
International students are still heading to the UK but are coming to the US in droves, according to an expert analysis of international student data. Dr Rahul Choudaha, chief executive and principal researcher of higher education consultancy DrEducation, crunched the numbers from ...
More »Hurdle in federal move to cut $3.7 billion from research
The $3.7 billion cut to the Education Investment Fund (EIF), announced in December last year, is unlikely to go ahead as it must pass through a hurdle unanticipated by the Coalition – the Senate. The $3.7 billion was meant to ...
More »UniMelb, UNSW join ‘global elite’ of business schools
The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Business School and the University of New South Wales’s Australian Graduate School of Management have been inaugurated into the elite tier of business schools by international rankings agency QS. The new analysis QS Global 250 ...
More »Young unis stride towards gender equity
Often it’s the young who embrace change earliest, and this could apply to universities. Of the 106 companies accredited in 2016 by the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency as Employers of Choice for Gender Equality, 14 are universities. Of ...
More »Audit into Bob Day’s training college
The national audit office is set to investigate how a training college connected to former Family First senator Bob Day received a $2 million taxpayer-funded grant. The auditor-general has confirmed it will examine the federal education department's establishment of the ...
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