Go8 looks to India The Group of Eight is looking to open an office in New Delhi to help counter fallout from the Indian student debacle and escalate its presence in Asia. Professor Ian Chubb, vice-chancellor of ANU, told the ...

Australia’s indigenous population will grow to almost 850,000 by 2031 and 1 million by 2040, with the growth rate immune to indigenous affairs policy, according to a new study from the ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research. But indigenous ...

International education needs better regulation, but what about opportunistic journalism, asks John Ross. Australia’s international education industry has problems. But in the parallel universe created by the media, they’re even worse. International education has been the big success story over ...

TAFEs should be able to collect a proportion of funding received by universities in exchange for teaching part of the courses on their behalf. This is just one possibility that could be considered in the new tertiary environment, a roundtable ...

The University of Melbourne will offer voluntary redundancies to up to 100 staff as part of an “economic response program” to plug the hole left by the university’s worst ever investment losses. Vice-chancellor Professor Glynn Davis last week said redundancies ...

The head of a US program designed to attract top graduates from a range of disciplines into teaching in disadvantaged schools has defended the Australian version of the program against strident criticism from teacher groups. Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach ...

Carrington heads to QUTealth public service and was a senior researcher within the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library. Happell to CQU Professor Brenda Happell has been appointed director of the Institute for Health and Social Science Research at CQU. Happell will succeed ...

India hopes to join the superpower elite, but there is not enough international quality in its higher education system. Phil Baty reports on how it aims to raise standards by overhauling regulation and inviting in foreign providers.ted to become one ...

<<<To throw the doors open to foreign providers is not necessarily a panacea for Indian higher education, warns Philip Altbach.>>> India’s new Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, has promised to open its higher education sector to foreign universities ...

It's time for a comprehensive national strategy on international education, says Stephen Connelly. My first job as an English language teacher was in 1988 at a college in downtown Melbourne. Fresh out of a dip ed, I took the beginners’ ...