Statistical differences between the courses overseas students apply for and the courses they eventually enrol in illustrate how migration objectives are distorting Australia’s international education industry, according to IDP Education chief executive Anthony Pollock. Pollock said Department of Immigration and ...

Simon Haines goes to a colourful drama festival and wonders why we don’t put such events on at home. On a couple of occasions in the past two or three years I’ve been invited to lecture to large groups of ...

Charles Darwin University last week joined Innovative Research Universities group, bringing back up to seven the number of institutions under its umbrella. Last year, Macquarie University, an original member of the group which formed in 2003, withdrew from the group, ...

$15m for Australia-Asia student exchange The Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong scholarship program has been extended for a further 10 years. The partnership between the Australian government and the Hong Kong-based company Cheung Kong Holdings will support international education exchange and ...

A national agency “with a presence in each state and territory” will take over regulation of vocational education and training (VET) and eventually higher education as well, under new recommendations from Skills Australia. But the jury’s still out on whether ...

Academic journals should show more sympathy for potential contributors by not requiring them to format their manuscripts before submission, according to a visiting French postdoctoral fellow with Sydney University’s School of Biological Sciences. François Brischoux from the Centre National de ...

The University of Canberra is to simplify its academic structure that could see early career academics promoted to associate professor in as little at five years. It is just one of a series of radical reforms under way at the ...

Griffith appoints new head of medicine a Curtin senior research fellow in new media in the Department of Internet Studies in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts. Balnaves is a former journalist and TV news production coordinator. Prior ...

UK looks to international student experience The University of Northampton is to offer a postgraduate certificate in enhancing the international student experience. The course, which will be introduced at the beginning of 2010, was developed in response to increasing numbers ...

The world leader in research output is expressing concern that its research universities are at risk of losing their competitive edge internationally. The core of the concern appears simply to be international competition rather than the impact the recession is ...