Universities are concerned by the lack of specifics in the government’s new plans for academic expansion into Asia, reports The government’s Australia in the Asian Century white paper outlines how the nation must engage with Asia to take advantage of ...

University of South Australia students are raising their glasses to the introduction of a new wine club that aims to tantalise tastebuds and uncover styles of wine that will soon be sold in Asia. The UniSA Kelosphera Wine Club hopes ...

The federal budget has done well to gear Australia’s services sector towards Asia, the industry body says. Australian Services Roundtable president James Bond said education services and tourism in the region had been boosted. “Australia’s third largest export, education and training, ...

International education has done more to forge ties with Asia than any other sector and can lead the nation’s preparation for the coming “Asian century”, Senator Chris Evans has told a Universities Australia conference. The Minister for Tertiary Education told ...

China's tertiary education sector is an expanding area attracting millions of dollars in government funding a year, and one which foreign partners should not shy away from taking part in.  That was the message of Professor Jeffrey Lehman, an American ...

Higher education has a key role to play in dispelling illusions about Australia’s role in the Asian century, policy expert Simon Marginson says.  The illusions are that Australia is outside Asia and will remain largely unchanged over the coming decades.  ...

The University of Sydney is over-reliant on international students in some faculties, to the point where a sudden drop in numbers would pose a significant risk, an audit by the new quality standards body has found.  But a spokesman for ...

A new stakeholder group to provide advice to government on how to boost Asia literacy in schools is to be convened shortly, Minister for School Education Peter Garrett has confirmed. The group will consist of educators, academics, teachers, the business ...