The My University website is not unique – the Germans have been doing it for years. The federal government is considering emulating a German website that allows potential university students to compare universities based on subject, institution or city in ...

A program designed to get regional and research-intensive universities working together is hitby a lack of definition. The federal government needs first to define what a regional university is and what is meant by less research-intensive before the nuts and ...

Skills Australia’s national workforce development strategy finds that the tertiary education teaching workforce needs its own development strategy. Julia Gillard will put the vocational education and training sector front and centre of the next stage of the education revolution if ...

Box Hill TAFE is a seasoned provider of higher education courses, but AUQA says it needs to alter its focus. Box Hill TAFE entered the higher education market in 2002, one of the first providers to respond to the Victorian ...

A private provider with a recent troubled past has much work to do to get to square one. When a quality audit begins with the phrase so and so is “at a challenging phase of development”, it’s code for “help!” ...

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A tougher approvals regime that has doubled the refusal rate for student visa applications. The proportion of student visa applications rejected by the immigration department has risen steeply, as tougher processing measures introduced last year by the immigration department begin ...

It’s taken six months to pass a Bill that seemed to have the Opposition’s blessings, and it’s going to take another three before the details become clear. Some 1300 colleges, universities and schools will have to reregister under tougher criteria ...

Australia needs to break the link with migration if it wants to fix international education, some claim. But will that really improve things? John Ross reports. Welcome desks at international airports, safety awareness forums, surveys of overseas students’ feelings. As ...

Melton, on the far north-western reaches of outer Melbourne, is the heartland of the federal government’s higher education equity push. The statistics paint the picture: low Year 12 completion rates, low education and training participation rates, by and large low ...