International education might be Australia’s fourth biggest export earner. But its new promoters will be talking up people, not purses. Austrade won’t fall into the trap of harping on about money when it talks up Australia’s biggest export service industry, ...

A new consultation paper examines the challenges of building and sustaining a high-quality research workforce as the nation strives to keep pace with skyrocketing global demand for researchers. The federal government may finally expand its postgraduate scholarships program as part ...

The government is getting its higher education revolution at 30 to 40 per cent of cost, higher education experts say. Universities are pushing ahead to meet the government’s education revolution targets despite receiving only 30 to 40 per cent of ...

Simon Crean has been education minister before – and universities are still bearing the brunt of one fateful decision. The last time Simon Crean held the federal education portfolio, he made at least one decision from which universities are still ...

It’s not just universities. Student numbers are also soaring in upper level VET courses, according to new NCVER data. The number of publicly funded VET students chasing high-level qualifications jumped by a sixth in 2009, raising the skills-deepening profile of ...

China’s university system is expanding fast – but the continuing exodus of students suggests its appetite for higher education is expanding faster. International education magnets like Australia, the US, Canada and France are benefiting from a massive brain drain from ...

The funding crisis for UK universities just got a whole lot worse, with the new government’s “emergency” budget turning the screws on the sector. UK universities face a “double whammy” of funding cuts and tax increases in the wake of ...

Higher education is increasingly feminised, but women are failing to break into the professoriate. Recent research sheds some new light on this perplexing situation Glass ceilings have been a keen topic of conversation for the past week or so, but ...

New research suggests student evaluations should be more flexible to allow a wider range of responses. Future versions of student satisfaction questionaries should be expanded and also assess learning attainment, according to a new study. Published in the most recent ...