Unis are opening their doors – and particularly to low-SES students, new figures suggest. Australian higher education is on track to achieve both of the Bradley targets, with a big rise in offers for university places skewed towards applicants from ...

International education is worth more than ever, official statistics show. But the good news is a late-arriving message from earlier times, before the industry had a stroke. International education was worth a record $18.6 billion to Australia last year. But ...

The process of modernising of the AQF is creating friction among stakeholders and accusations of lack of transparency. The overhaul of the Australian Qualifications Framework has been strongly criticised for its lack of transparency, piecemeal approach to releasing policies and ...

The elder statesman of higher education to hang up his hat. Agent provocateur, defender of the faith, formidable mover and shaker and fearless advocate for quality, one of the biggest characters (in every sense of the word) in Australian higher ...

A national poll has found that 75 per cent of Australians believe that violent attacks on Indian students have damaged our relations with India. Despite diplomatic and legislative action by government, almost three quarters of Australians believe that violent attacks ...

A new feasibility will look at how multiple tertiary education providers may help improve a region’s dire higher education participation record. Collaboration is the new byword in the drive to make higher education more equitable. And now five universities and ...

If international education’s canary in the coalmine has caught a cold, new figures from China suggest it could be a very bad one. If anything happens to China, we’ve had it, English Australia executive director Sue Blundell told a Sydney ...

Associate Professor Baden Offord has been appointed as the chair of Australian studies at the University of Tokyo. Offord is co-director of Southern Cross University’s Centre for Peace and Social Justice and lectures in cultural and Australian studies in the ...

The Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) has appointed Paul Sherlock as chair. Sherlock is the director of information strategy and technology services at UniSA, and has been the director and chair of the SA Broadband Research ...