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The rigour vs relevance debate has raged in business schools since their inception. In the early days, most professors were retired or were very experienced executives whose role was to narrate war stories to students. Students found their education highly ...

A series of government reviews over the past year highlights why it’s no longer appropriate to look at tertiary education as a binary choice for students, presented as a choice between undertaking study in the higher education sector or the ...

Australians love sausages but we prefer not to know what goes into them. Australians love the jobs and revenue generated by international students but most have no idea about the process of having them enter the country, and what happens ...

ALWAYS SUNNY He’s exceptionally good at getting grants ($7.5m), publishing research papers (100+) and seeing candidates achieve higher degrees (4500 during his time as deputy dean of UQ’s Graduate School). USC Australia is lucky indeed to have Professor Stephan Riek ...

The Prime Minister has this week announced major reforms of Australia’s “clunky and unresponsive” vocational education and training system. In an address at the National Press Club, Scott Morrison said there was a lack of information about what future skills ...

One of the learnings from the extraordinary public health, social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the depth and duration of which is yet to be fully experienced, is to clearly identify and deliberately find solutions to each ‘next highest ...

The Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group has outlined how its members are tackling COVID-19 in Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region while calling on the government for more research funding. The IRU group (comprising seven universities) is focusing on three ...

Universities Australia has welcomed recent moves by Tasmania, Queensland and Western Australia to support international students affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This support builds on initiatives already rolled out by Tasmania, the Northern Territory and South Australia. However, conspicuously absent ...

TAFE Queensland has reported that the sector has been inundated with support for international students doing it tough, establishing both a donation line and food banks at campuses. Such donations aim to alleviate the harmful financial impact COVID-19 has had on ...

The Australian Government has decided to set aside fees and charges from Australia’s two regulatory bodies for the independent education sector and suspend tax paid on independent student sector loans. The move comes after strong advocacy by the Independent Tertiary ...