The federal government is staying silent on Henry review proposals to improve student income support – and it’s not inviting vice-chancellors to a pre-budget pow-wow, either. The government should let students use HECS for some of their living expenses as ...

Adelaide is busy attracting high profile foreign universities, but they are being stymied in their attempts to fulfil their research mission. One of the world’s leading research intensive universities, University College London, can’t compete for Australian Research Council grants despite ...

The University of Melbourne launched three of its most high-profile degrees last week, but the name doesn’t match the qualification. What’s in a name? Quite a lot for three University of Melbourne which last week launched three doctors degrees, but ...

Australians too lazy to train? No, they’re too time-poor, with almost half officially rushed off their feet. Australia is banking its future on increasing its productivity through higher skill levels. But a leading employment academic is asking whether Australians can ...

English colleges are doing it tough, but watch out – you may be next. English language schools are the canary in the coalmine of Australia’s international education industry because of their sensitivity to changes in the external environment, according to ...

GEOS has gone bust in Japan, despite its Australian offspring’s fatal efforts to bail it out. Three months after the GEOS group of English language colleges collapsed in Australia, reportedly displacing 4500 students and 390 staff, their Japanese parent has ...

Megan Davis, director of the Indigenous Law Centre in the Faculty of Law at UNSW, is the first Australian indigenous woman to be elected to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Although nominated by the federal government, she will ...

At the recent 13th AVETRA conference in Queensland, Llandis Barratt-Pugh was confirmed as the fifth president of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Researchers Association. Barratt-Pugh is currently coordinator of the leadership and change management stream of the MBA program ...

Professor Rónán McDonald, a scholar of Samuel Beckett, literary critic and historian of Irish modernism, has been appointed as the Australian Ireland Fund chair in modern Irish studies at UNSW. McDonald is director of the new John Hume Institute in ...

The University of Wollongong has announced that Garry Bowditch has been appointed as director of the SMART Infrastructure Facility. The facility, which is under construction at UOW, will be a world-class research and training centre designed to address Australia’s future ...