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Australia should work to attract foreign PhDs, but it should also accept that its strengths in international education lie at the lower end of the higher education spectrum. Australia should chase foreign enrolments in high-level degrees, but not at the ...

The number of women in senior positions is back on the agenda. Why? Just have a look around. Julie Hare reports. For one fleeting moment back in 2004, 11 of the country’s 39 vice-chancellors were female. That nearly one third ...

TAFEs were sidelined in two key federal programs introduced in response to the Bradley report. But Victoria’s new higher education report puts them in the front row. TAFEs – mostly ignored in a key federal government equity program – would ...

The feminisation of universities might be real, but there is no such thing as equality in the research arena, writes Sharon Bell. The concurrent visits to Australia of two female Nobel Laureates, Professors Elizabeth Blackburn and Ada Yonath, is cause ...

First-year students are better informed and better prepared for university life. The problem is, they are just not engaging in it. Picture this. It’s 2009. There are two first year students. They are highly organised, extremely busy, happy with their ...

Victoria can meet and even beat the federal higher education targets – but a bit of finessing will be needed. Victoria will easily meet the federal government’s 40 per cent higher education attainment target, and should strive for 47 per ...

The Youth Allowance reform package finally made it through the Senate, but the system is now a “dog’s breakfast”. Every student from the Northern Territory – and none from the ACT – will be able to qualify for Youth Allowance ...

Public and private peak bodies both say funding arrangements and jurisdictional differences are damaging the PPP. Most TAFEs and many private VET providers say funding rates under the Productivity Places Program (PPP) are too low to cover quality courses, according ...

The My University website is not unique – the Germans have been doing it for years. The federal government’s My University website is likely to emulating a German website that allows potential students to compare universities based on the subject, ...

Quality journalism at Campus Review receives national recognition. Campus Review journalist John Ross was presented with his award for 2010 Higher Education Journalist of the Year by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the National Press Club last week. CR dominated ...