No financial worries for top Chinese universities While western universities struggle with collapsing endowments, China’s top universities are stronger than ever. Hao Ping, China’s vice-minister of education, said that in 2007 the 34 Chinese universities identified as the frontrunners of ...

Fears that transnational education (TNE) could swamp onshore enrolments are unfounded, new research to be presented at this week’s Australian International Education Conference suggests. While the number of students enrolled in transnational programs in Australian universities reached an all time ...

Australia’s elite universities are all back in the top 100 in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. But the current threats to international student recruitment could also jeopardise the country’s rankings in the future. Australia maintained its third position ...

Cricket matches, Facebook and specially produced DVDs have all been drafted into frontline efforts aimed at ensuring the safety of international students in Melbourne, a conference will hear this week. Police and other experts working in the field say active, ...

Only 26 per cent of doctoral graduates working in Australia are in higher education, providing the sector with a large pool of potential future staff, according to a new study into the academic profession. However, PhDs will be drawn back ...

The overhaul of Australia’s pathbreaking but ageing qualifications framework has moved into its second phase with the release of a refined consultation paper on a new architecture for the framework. But there’s a back to the future feel about the ...

Australian scientist wins Nobel Professor Elizabeth Blackburn has become Australia’s first female Nobel laureate when she won this year’s medicine category last week. Tasmanian-born Blackburn (60) and US colleagues Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were recognised for their major breakthrough ...

From downloads of lectures to entire courses for free, Rebecca Attwood reports on how universities are fitting open educational resources into their missions and marketing.ide by side with researchers in laboratories, it would be impossible to transfer the kind of ...

It’s a birthday, and Simon Haines experiences democracy Hong Kong style. A lively long weekend in Hong Kong. Three hundred and fifty thousand people on both sides of Victoria Harbour on Thursday evening watching the fireworks display for the PRC’s ...