The gap between indigenous and non-indigenous students across many indicators has widened in the last decade. Just 10,201 out of 766,028 domestic students are indigenous well below the parity target of 3.1 per cent. The recently announced review into indigenous ...

It's been 18 years since the University of Wollongong became the first foreign higher education operation in the UAE. Challenges have arisen, but the university intends to stay and keep growing. When it comes to internationalisation of higher education, theUniversityofWollongonghas ...

Another government review involving higher education is fine, says Universities Australia. Just make sure it takes the opportunity to integrate international education into a slew of broader reforms. In one of the last submissions to an upcoming review of the ...

Vocational research centre launches free international research database Australia does not need an education sector taken from old notions of powers and elites but one that relates to new and emerging ways of thinking about knowledge creation and industry, Stephen ...

Apart from being almost cashless a glaring omission from the strategy, from the sector's perspective, is an explicit commitment to extend Australian Postgraduate Awards (APAs) from three to four years, writes Susan Woodward Innovation will lift Australia from its productivity ...

"Historical fixes" shouldn't govern how much university students contribute to their own education, says UA. Australia should move beyond an "arbitrary" approach to tuition fees and apply basic principles to decide just how much private funders - including students - ...

Law graduate swaps academic robe for traditional indigenous attire at graduation In his graduation ceremony at Macquarie University Lachlan McDaniel swapped his western academic uniform for a possum skin cloak. In doing so he became one of Australia's first indigenous ...

Recently released financial statements show why international education's backup consumer protection fund needed a $30 million backup in loans. The backup consumer protection mechanism for international students, the ESOS Assurance Fund, was almost $8 million in the red before the ...

Public benefit arguments could end up forcing students to dig deeper into their own pockets, says Andrew Norton. Neither public benefit arguments nor OECD averages constitute a convincing case for a big increase in public funding, according to higher education ...

From VC to chief scientist, Professor Ian Chubb still has much to offer the higher education sector. The kicker at the launch of a long-awaited national research workforce strategy garnered more sector approval than the policy itself this week. Speaking ...