The Victorian government’s focus on families and health left little in the way of announcements for VET and higher education. The Victorian government tipped $91.2 million into the VET sector last week, including $32.3 million for a program to boost ...

There’s good news for HE in the latest international enrolment figures – but don’t pop the champagne corks. Higher education (HE) enrolments have barely been affected by last year’s well-publicised problems in international education, according to the March enrolment summary ...

The federal Opposition has given its first indication of its higher education policy if it wins government, and it all sounds pretty familiar. A Liberal government would reintroduce full fees for domestic students, restore the Education Investment Fund as a ...

Swinburne has reinforced its reputation as an intersectoral bridge-builder with a guaranteed, institution-wide articulation program. Swinburne University of Technology will offer to parachute all of its higher level TAFE students into guaranteed undergraduate places, complete with advanced standing, through new ...

Universities are witnessing massive growth in the number of administrative staff whose role is primarily to deal with red tape. In her inaugural speech to the higher education sector as the new minister for education in 2008, Julia Gillard spoke ...

International research powerhouse University College London is open for business in Adelaide and is already outperforming even its own predictions. University College London opened its first overseas campus in Adelaide last week with 13 students enrolled in a bespoke masters ...

European research is experiencing similar problems to that in Australia, with publication obsessions and time-starved doctoral students. But Europe is heading the opposite way with honours programs. The increasing use of publication metrics to judge research is prioritising quantity over ...

The National Audit and Registration Agency (NARA) should have been selected as the national VET regulator, according to the CEO of a Melbourne-based private training provider. Brent Quill, CEO of Training for Work, told the recent Policy in the Pub ...

Canada’s biggest province is targeting international PhDs as part of a wider program of tertiary education reforms, including an ambitious domestic participation target. International doctoral students graduating from universities in Ontario will no longer need offers of employment before they’re ...

The latest changes to student visa processing arrangements seem reasonable enough, but ACPET says they could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. The peak private education body has come out swinging against the latest changes to student visa ...