Fresh data indicating the value of Australia’s international education sector has grown to $18 billion has been hailed as evidence of local efforts to ensure the nation’s universities remain competitive in the global arena. The data, released late last week ...

A looming meeting of business, professional, community and government leaders is an opportunity to help ensure the continued growth of the research sector, provided valuable stakeholders are not shut out of the talks, the Go8 has argued. In a statement ...

Policy expert Peter Noonan has called for a HECS-style system to be made available to all post-school courses. Mitchell Institute fellow Noonan said income-contingent loans, which the HELP scheme offers, should be equally available to all students in post-secondary education. “One of the ...

One of Australia’s leading MOOC providers has launched Teach-a-thon – a hacking marathon for educators who want to run their own creative online courses. Embracing the spirit of a hack-a-thon – an intensive, short-term collaboration with software designers – OpenLearning.com will kick ...

Charles Sturt University has launched a MOOC aimed at developing students’ pre-tertiary achievement levels and to explore aspects of the transition to university. CSU project manager Craig Billingham said the What’s Uni Like? MOOC is being promoted to Australian universities, ...

Access to free online courses is allowing primary and high school students obtain university level education, something that was previously off limits prior to the birth of MOOCs. Australian National University (ANU) acting vice-chancellor professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, who will take ...

Northern Territory’s controversial mandatory alcohol rehabilitation scheme is not cost-effective and may be discriminatory, say medical experts. The scheme costs about $27 million annually, but they say alcohol misuse could be reduced more effectively by methods such as interventions involving ...

Students should play a major role in defining successful higher education outcomes. This word ‘quality’ is something I have often come across in daily life as the president of the Council of International Students Australia. I think this is one ...

All teacher education students will be required to pass standardised literacy and numeracy tests in order to qualify for graduation under a new plan to be phased in via a trial starting this year. The test, developed by the Australian ...

Australia’s international education services export income hit a record $17.6 billion in 2014, the latest ABS data has revealed. Releasing the new figures this week, the education minister, Christopher Pyne, said the results indicated that about $600 million of the $17.6 ...