Australian VET was getting more efficient, productive and inclusive before the current market-based reforms ramped up last year, according to a new Productivity Commission report on government-funded VET provision in 2007. The VET chapter of the 'Report on government services', ...

English-language competence of international students is a hot topic. Developing and implementing appropriate English-language policy and high quality adjunct programs are a start. But they are just a start, says Marcia Devlin and Judy Nagy. International students have been getting ...

Five universities were first-timers in last week’s Learning and Teaching Performance Fund, while another five were left empty-handed. In all, 32 universities received a total of $73 million, with UNSW topping the list at $7 million. While the controversy that ...

Global Campus Management, the company which until last year owned half of CQUniversity, has signed a deal with Cayman Islands-based SinoEd Group. The companies currently have operations in the US, New Zealand, China, Australia and India across the high school, ...

International education earnings up again: UA The ABS International Goods and Services December 2008 trade data shows international education remained buoyant last year, increasing its earnings 27 per cent to $15.5 billion in 2008, according to Universities Australia. UA said ...

There are two ways students can qualify for the Training and Learning Bonus. Firstly if, on 3 February, they were a student or apprentice eligible for youth allowance, Austudy, Abstudy or various other schemes including sickness allowance and special benefit. ...

$42 billion buys a lot of stimulus, for students and many others. It also buys a lot of politicking. When the stimulus package bill hit Parliament last Wednesday, the House of Reps stayed up all night to yell about it. ...

Richard Larkins, vice-chancellor of Monash University, has told the federal Government he opposes a voucher-style funding system for higher education unless institutions can set their own fees. Larkins was a participant in a confidential roundtable meeting with education minister Julia ...

The importance of the Bradley review can’t be denied. But recommendations from two previous reviews have simply blown away in the political breeze, says David Battersby. The final report of the Bradley review of higher education is now with the ...

Last month, Campus Review (20.01.09) ran two articles relating to the social inclusion and integration of international students: one connected to quality assurance at Adelaide University, and the other a more personal reflection from IEAA president Stephen Connolly. Both perspectives ...