The gap year needs mapping, according to research suggesting we don’t really know how many students defer – let alone how many come back. When then education minister Julia Gillard sought to change student income support arrangements last year, she ...

Victoria’s VET sector is “one of the state’s great assets”, according to former PM Paul Keating, but state policies are holding it back. Modern careers have moved on from the “set and forget” culture of the early baby boomers, and ...

The wide brown parts of our land are about to see a bit more of the green stuff, with the regions getting first pick of new education spending. Half a billion dollars in dedicated infrastructure funding is just the start ...

Most Australian unis lost ground in last week’s QS rankings – and there’s worse to come this week. Sliding global rankings could be the latest wave of the ‘perfect storm’ threatening to engulf international education in Australia, experts warn. All ...

A failure in international education would be an “an abject failure of policy”, according to former PM Paul Keating. The downturn in international education is largely the result of Australians’ attitude to immigration and the ‘boat people’ debate, former Prime ...

RPL is likely to play a bigger role in hitting training targets, as a backlog of older workers realise they can convert decades of experience into recognised qualifications. Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is set for an explosion over the ...

A positive discrimination approach could inject some much-needed diversity into homogenous international student groups. Universities should consider introducing scholarships for overseas students from targeted countries, in order to diversify international enrolments, a Sydney conference heard last month. Andrew Holloway, vice ...

Facing the challenges in the student accommodation sector. Government should expand infrastructure and accommodation funding through a new General Capital Fund to complement the competitive EIF system, folding in other smaller funding streams, rewarding co-funding and supporting the attainment of ...

“Going viral” is the last thing most travelers want. But organisers of a safety campaign, targeted at foreign students, are hoping for exactly that. In May last year, as disquiet was brewing over attacks on foreign students in Melbourne, a ...

International student support can’t be ticked off in a one-off orientation session, says Bruce Baird. Safety, health and welfare issues aren’t the main concern for most foreign students, according to the operators of the first national after-hours personal support hotline ...