After a timely review, the government realised the importance of the international sector and acted to protect it. There are many metaphors you could use to describe the international education sector in 2011. It pulled itself out the mud, bounced ...

Christmas presents in the form of a federal government spend of $377 million under the Structural Adjustment Fund came just in time for universities across the country. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the money would fund 11 new projects in ...

Vocational training has had to absorb many changes this year, the biggest being the push to expand the private sector. It has been a turbulent year for vocational education in Australia, with major changes impacting on public and private providers ...

It is hoped that the new early career research grants will help institutions keep the next generation of top academics. As an early career researcher (ECR) Tyrell Haberkorn had always imagined she’d have to write her next book in that ...

While vocational education and training (VET) graduates are finding work after they finish their training, employment has not returned to pre-economic downturn levels. New data released today by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) shows that 77.4 per cent ...

Former dean of arts at a regional NSW university Professor Sandy Thomas is for the first time attending Incoholics Anonymous (IA) – an organisation concerned with workers in the corporate sector who have become addicted to income generation. Thomas: Hello ...

Just as a round of government funding gets underway, new research looks at the growth of teaching nursing homes in Australia. The majority of the teaching nursing homes currently operating in Australia are in metropolitan areas, are large in size ...

While nurses and healthcare professionals frequently top the list of the most trusted professions, it is critical for universities to challenge the status quo of ethics education, says one ethicist. One would argue with the proposition that healthcare professionals ought ...

We have dominated the Asia-Pacific campus playground but there’s a bigger kid ready to move in Back in the 1990s and noughties, America's leading public universities watched Australia's success with envy as we educated hundreds of thousands of full-fee paying ...

The re-election of the Nationals in New Zealand means some in the education system will have to get used to more accountability. “Here we go again …” is sung lustily at one New Zealand post-election event while at another “The ...