College ‘appalled’ at Facebook rape site St Paul’s College at Sydney University has said it is appalled by the contents of a pro-rape, anti-consent Facebook site reported in the Sydney Morning Herald last week. The college says it has immediately commenced a ...

Top Digger digs deep in Delhi. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd marked his visit to India last week by announcing the federal government would invest an extra $70 million into scientific collaborations with the subcontinent superpower. Rudd said the government would ...

UK to slash VET spending A leaked document shows the British government plans to cut $A630 million from its 2010-11 training budget, reports The Observer. The newspaper has obtained a confidential memo detailing preferred options for slashing the $7 billion skills ...

At least 2700 international students have been affected by the collapse of another large private provider. At least 2700 international students, including high school students in the middle of their final exams, have been sidelined by the collapse of another ...

Monash University has announced plans for major expansion to help meet federal government social equity targets Australia’s largest university Monash has unveiled plans to dramatically increase its student enrolments by 11,000 students – or nearly 20 per cent – over ...

Toby Miller watches helplessly as the once-proud University of California system crumbles to its knees. The phones are being turned off. The garbage is no longer being removed from offices. Student fees are rumoured to be going up by 35 ...

Regulatory impediments in China and India have kept a lid on offshore enrolments from the two Asian giants. But all that is about to change, writes John Ross. A recent regulatory shake-up in China is helping turn the East Asian ...

Vocational education has just leapfrogged higher education as the largest sector in international education. After stalking higher education for months, VET has now emerged as international education’s pre-eminent sector, according to the latest figures from Australian Education International. According to ...

Monash’s new vice-chancellor Ed Byrne has been quick off the mark to set the university’s path for the next decade, writes Julie Hare. It’s just four short months since Professor Ed Byrne took over the reins at Australia’s largest university. ...

The federal government still plans to release $600 million from the Education Investment Fund, despite reducing current allocations by $200 million. The federal government still plans to allocate a further $600 million from the Education Investment Fund’s round 3 and ...