Peak bodies weren’t consulted about the decision to transfer responsibility for marketing international education to Austrade. Australian Education International’s marketing and promotion functions will be transferred to the Australian Trade Commission from July next year, in a decision that has ...

Go8 to support University of PNG The Group of Eight has announced a new program of academic collaboration with the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. Go8 chair Professor Alan Robson said the Go8-UPNG project will engage academics ...

The ALTC has had a $2 million funding boost to drive work on academic standards. Academic standards are a hot topic and they got even hotter last week with the news that the Australian Learning and Teaching Council will now ...

UNE appoints new vice-chancellor The University of New England has appointed Professor James Barber as its next vice-chancellor and CEO. Barber is currently deputy vice-chancellor at RMIT. He is director on a number of national bodies, including Open Universities Australia, ...

With higher education funding in England about to be reviewed, the Higher Education Policy Institute has recommended against a voucher system. England shouldn’t introduce a voucher system for higher education funding because there’s no evidence that such systems work and ...

Universities value to economy in the billions Universities in Britain are worth £59 billion ($107 billion) to the economy, according a report into the economic impact of higher education. This figure, based on data for 2007-08, represents a 25 per ...

Mobile devices and private clouds are among the technologies that will have the greatest impact on education in the coming year, writes Beverley Head. When Microsoft took the final veils off the Windows 7 operating system last month it also ...

Undergraduates starting their studies next year look likely to face the lowest levels of amenities and income support available to university students in well over a decade. Two key pieces of government legislation – the reintroduced Student Services and Amenities ...

Australia’s universities spend more on scholarships for commencing international postgraduate research students than they spend on agents’ commissions for all international students, new benchmarking data reveals. Higher education researcher Alan Olsen told this month’s Australian International Education Conference that universities ...