In a letter from Guangzhou, Stuart Middleton asks why Australia and New Zealand don’t train more Chinese tradespeople. I have come up to China with a civic delegation from Auckland with all the trappings that go with that – banquets, ...
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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 ...
More »Uni warned on overseas student numbers
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 ...
More »Private providers at the big table
Private educators still hanker for the same respect as those in the public system, but they have arguably gained a lot of ground since 1992. That’s the year governments recognised the value of a market-based approach to vocational education and ...
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