The immigration department is ramping up its scrutiny of student visa applications from people in six countries, including India, in an effort to stamp out visa fraud and ensure applicants have enough money to live and study in Australia. Immigration ...

This week will see the arrival of the first cohort of students to enrol in Holmesglen TAFE’s controversial bachelor of nursing degree. Education minister Julia Gillard approved Holmesglen’s application for 40 Commonwealth-supported nursing places in April in the face of ...

Major textbook publisher to rent not sell One of the US’s largest textbook publishers announced this month that it would start renting books to students at 40 per cent to 70 per cent of the sale price, reports the New York ...

Demand for higher education has risen sharply, and availability of places has failed to keep pace, as the economic downturn sent a tremor through this year’s applications, offers and acceptances data. Applications have rebounded this year, jumping more than 5 ...

Any attempts to develop a framework for academic achievement standards are doomed to failure because of the wide variety of academic and professional cultures across universities, according to a University of Oxford expert. Professor Gordon Stanley, who is the Pearson ...

The federal review of international education may extend to areas such as curriculum and students’ language abilities – but only if they’re relevant to student welfare and consumer issues, according to review head Bruce Baird. Baird, a former state and ...

If Professor Steven Schwartz’s early months as vice-chancellor of Macquarie University in 2006 was notable for the ugly and very public spat with its former vice-chancellor Di Yerbury, then last week’s AUQA might well have left people asking Di Who? ...

UWS no longer has accreditation for its construction management degree after the professional body that oversees it refused to recognise the course. The Australian Institute of Building did not renew UWS’s accreditation after it expired earlier this year. The AIB ...