Enrolments from Saudi Arabia – Australia’s tenth-biggest and second-fastest growing market for international students – appear unlikely to be permanently affected by the delisting of Australia as a destination for students who have won prestigious Saudi government scholarships.nglish. DEEWR said ...
More »Record research funding for universities
The government last week handed out $1.4 billion in funding for research and research training. Forty-one higher education institutions shared a record $1.42 billion in research block grants last week. The amount is $150 million more than in 2009. Melbourne ...
More »Demand-driven system drives providers online
Distance education is enjoying a boom as OUA adds two more partners. The prospect of a demand-driven system, flagged just two years ago, is leading to a flurry of interest in Open Universities Australia from institutions as they endeavour to ...
More »La Trobe’s renewal captured in report: AUQA
AUQA’s most recent audit report captures an institution in a state of change. An AUQA report is snapshot of a university at a particular point in time. More often than not, that snapshot reveals a larger, overall picture of an ...
More »What price equity?
The federal government has unveiled the carrot it hopes will encourage universities to take disadvantaged students – $540 per student. The federal government is channelling less than 1 per cent of university learning and teaching expenditure this year towards its ...
More »Enrolments from Nepal, Saudi set to plummet
Enrolments from Australia’s two fastest-growing international education markets are set to collapse. Enrolments from two of Australia’s top 10 markets for international students are expected to plunge dramatically, after offshore student visa applications from Nepal nosedived 85 per cent and ...
More »Measure for measure: indicators to assess equity performance
The government says its indicators for measuring equity performance will provide transparency and accountability. But, as usual, the devil is in the detail. The federal government’s proposed indicators for assessing university performance in attracting and retaining low-SES students have been ...
More »More skilled migration shake-ups on the way
International enrolments could be dampened by changes to migration arrangements which have been proposed in two current reviews. The federal government may stop using priority occupation lists in a further shake-up of the skilled migration program. The decision could have ...
More »Pensions as well as postcodes: new SES measure
Centrelink information, as well as postcodes, will determine student SES for the purposes of the new equity loading – but only as an interim measure. The federal government will partly move away from postcodes – which have been used exclusively ...
More »Excellence and mediocrity at UNE: AUQA
UNE is a university of contrasts.” So begins UNE’s recent AUQA audit – a mixed bag that finds pockets of excellence, energy, enthusiasm and vision amid a broader culture largely happy with maintaining the status quo. So while the university ...
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