Australia has only begun to take international student safety seriously because its immigration program is threatened by the economic crisis, according to a working paper from Monash University’s Faculty of Business and Economics. International education administrators believed until recently that ...

The federal, state and territory governments have changed the rules on who pays for training funded under the Productivity Places Program (PPP), with students now liable for a 10 per cent component that was originally supposed to be paid by ...

Everyone these days agrees that the economy needs more people with qualifications and that those already with qualifications need to extend their education and training. One element of this is a policy push for an increase in delivery of VET ...

Accusations that AQUA was too close to its own review process which was lacking in dispassionate stakeholder input have been strongly rejected by the agency. Douglas Blackmur, professor in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of ...

Strong strategic direction and planning, strengthening research profile, students as happy campers, hitting the mark on student equity, well-developed internationalisation strategy, curriculum renewal, healthy offshore campus, great reputation in domestic and international markets. Curtin University of Technology was handed its ...

International education needs to be divorced from domestic higher education funding so that it can spread its own wings, according to the chair of the higher education review, Professor Denise Bradley. Bradley’s report argues that international education can play a ...

Gillard says community service for HECS idea has merit Rewarding students who do volunteer work by paying off their HECS debts would encourage young people to be more altruistic, education minister Julia Gillard says. But the Opposition says the scheme ...

A new advisory group to help protect Indians from violent crime is Victoria’s latest effort to safeguard its international students – and its biggest export earner. The Police-Indian Western Reference Group will help shield Indian visitors and residents, particularly students, ...

Orientation weeks should become orientation fortnights to give them time to cover safety and local familiarisation as well as course-specific issues, according to the Victorian Overseas Student Experience Taskforce. The taskforce, which handed down its final report just before Christmas, ...

The article ‘Davidson calls for a rethink on Training Packages’ (CR, 20.01.09) notes the need for training packages to be flexible enough to facilitate teaching of critical skills. Jim Davidson is quite right and in my 30 years of experience ...