NMIT may scrap some of its diplomas next year after an unprecedented marketing effort failed to prevent a 32 per cent slump in enrolments. Deliberate over-enrolling, an enhanced web presence and the biggest advertising and marketing campaign in its history ...

Austrade will be well up to speed on international education when it takes the promotional baton from Australian Education International. Austrade will have plenty of experience under its belt when it assumes responsibilities for promoting and marketing international education in ...

Australia should work to attract foreign PhDs, but it should also accept that its strengths in international education lie at the lower end of the higher education spectrum. Australia should chase foreign enrolments in high-level degrees, but not at the ...

For the first time, a majority of young women inEngland are going to university. 2009 saw a watershed in university participation in the UK. For the first time ever, university entrance figures show that 51 per cent of young women ...

The number of women in senior positions is back on the agenda. Why? Just have a look around. Julie Hare reports. For one fleeting moment back in 2004, 11 of the country’s 39 vice-chancellors were female. That nearly one third ...

TAFEs were sidelined in two key federal programs introduced in response to the Bradley report. But Victoria’s new higher education report puts them in the front row. TAFEs – mostly ignored in a key federal government equity program – would ...

Education providers could face fines if their agents tell porkies under recommendations from the Baird review. Training providers would be fined if their offshore agents acted unethically, and Australian-based agents would be banned from charging commissions for luring students from ...

AEI will have its work cut out even without its promotional and regulatory responsibilities, a new “discussion starter” argues. Australian Education International (AEI) is refocusing its role at a time of unprecedented change in the industry, according to a consultation ...

First-year students are better informed and better prepared for university life. The problem is, they are just not engaging in it. Picture this. It’s 2009. There are two first year students. They are highly organised, extremely busy, happy with their ...