Kaplan expands Australian offerings Private education group Kaplan has acquired Murdoch Institute of Technology in Perth from the Alexander Education Group. The Murdoch Institute of Technology offers preparatory courses for direct entry into Murdoch University. The agreement includes the transfer ...

It depends on who you talk to, but last Wednesday’s strike was either a raging success or a quiet affair which hardly registered a blip on the radar. While the NTEU estimates 20,000 staff took industrial action affecting 400,000 students, ...

If international students are having a terrible time in Australia, someone apparently forgot to tell them. The experience they recount to researchers has remained consistently positive for around five years, according to the latest survey on international student satisfaction. The ...

Major change is never easy, but the University of Southern Queensland has been there, done that and come out the other side with a clean bill of health, according to its Australian Universities Quality Agency audit. As AUQA notes, USQ ...

International students are overwhelmingly portrayed as victims – both here and especially in the Indian media. The general picture is of well-intentioned, hopeful, law-abiding yet hapless individuals who get done over by dodgy training providers and unscrupulous employers. But the ...

The opposition has signalled in-principle support for Julia Gillard’s amendments to the Education Services for Overseas Students Act, but wants the federal government to go further. “The Coalition will be proposing three amendments to this Bill to ensure the legislation ...

University heads are grimacing at the dawning likelihood that it will be second semester next year before the long-awaited student amenities fee can be levied. The delay will be a $100 million blow to the sector, which had been counting ...

Current policies which do not provide funding for places or give students access to HECS hamper the expansion of higher education in TAFE and run counter to the government’s social inclusion agenda. A new report by a team of researchers ...

The government’s ambitious higher education completion targets have already been achieved for women, but are being hampered by men who underperform on most higher education measures when compared to their female counterparts. For the past five years, just 28 per ...