Europe’s universities and their peak bodies are extending their influence across the South Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Europe’s efforts to build bridges with Latin American university groups could help harmonise the higher education systems of South and Central America, as ...

Labor says better information disclosure will help solve problems in international education. But it’s ignoring its own advice by keeping the sector in the dark over its new consumer protection scheme. Fifteen months after an independent reviewer recommended wholesale changes ...

International education’s worse fears are being realised, with the Indian market collapsing and China following suit. India has all but disappeared as a source of new international students in Australia, slumping to seventh or worse in the league table of ...

The immigration minister has finally wound up a language testing anomaly suspected of discouraging international students. A potential impediment to international enrolments was removed last week when the immigration minister committed to broadening the range of language tests deemed acceptable ...

Labor claims universities have reaped a $3 billion windfall since it took office. But a higher education analyst says its projections are misleading. Federal spending on higher education is about $3 billion more than it would have been if the ...

Connect with your alumni vice-chancellors from universities across the world are told It is critical that universities in Australia become genuinely independent and less regulated in a more competitive environment, opposition spokesman on communication, Malcolm Turnbull says. The eastern Sydney ...

International students who want to stay in Australia may find a way via the regional skilled migration plan announced in the federal budget. The 16,000 regional skilled migrant places announced in the federal budget are a renewed opportunity for international ...

The higher education sector has avoided the major federal budget cuts it anticipated. ‘Relief’ sums up higher education reaction to the federal budget, which spared universities the kind of cuts they feared were inevitable in tough economic times. The 3.8 ...

After carving out an impressive research career, Professor Linda Kristjanson takes up her appointment as the new vice-chancellor at Swinburne University of Technology today. Kristjanson leaves Curtin University, where she served as deputy vice-chancellor (research and development). “She is an ...

VET - like HE - will move towards a national demand-driven system, under measures in last week's budget. The question is, whose demand? The federal budget has opened up a new fault line in the supposedly integrated tertiary education sector, ...