VET outcomes deteriorated significantly through the middle half of this decade, throwing doubt on the sector’s capacity to help meet higher education equity and completion targets. Dr Leesa Wheelahan, senior lecturer in adult and vocational education at Griffith University, told ...

Just six years from now, the Victorian higher education system could look very different. Along with a mix of comprehensive and dual sector universities, TAFEs would have more higher education qualifications on offer and there may also be a polytechnic ...

International education may be Australia’s third-biggest export industry, but it’s demography – not dollars – that’s driving unprecedented global competition for international enrolments, a University of Melbourne migration expert says. Melbourne University’s associate dean (international), Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne, says a ...

International students’ proficiency in English will not automatically improve over the course of their studies. But access to regular non-academic social interactions could be the key to unlocking dramatic improvements in both academic and informal language skills. And while most ...

A federal government backbencher believes the proposed changes to international education legislation don’t go far enough, and should wind back the Howard Government’s 2001 reforms that allowed international students to apply for permanent residence without going home first. Former shadow ...

The Opposition spokesperson on immigration, Dr Sharman Stone, believes aged care and automotive engineering are set to take over from hairdressing and cooking, as dodgy colleges look for new ways to exploit the critical skills list. But there’s a problem ...

Ramsden joins PhillipsKPA Professor Paul Ramsden, inaugural chief executive of the UK Higher Education Academy, is set to work for education consultancy PhillipsKPA. The HEA was set up in 2004 to improve the student learning experience across the UK. Prior ...

First non-peer-reviewed grant announced University College London (UCL), which last year announced plans to award unorthodox research grants without robust peer review, deadlines, directives or milestones, has chosen its first awardee – a biochemist who will study the evolutionary switch ...

An ancient European university teaching in English is leading the push for internationalisation – and rankings, writes Christina Slade. As autumn cools into winter, the streams of students cycling to and from classes are increasingly bundled in layers of clothing, ...

Educational technologies play a critical role in helping disadvantaged students successfully negotiate their education, writes Leesa Wheelahan. I recently came across an extraordinary finding – there already exists a cross-sectoral committee that includes the schools, VET and higher education sectors, ...