Valuable foreign medical students are being deterred from Australian study by anxiety about the graduate internship bottleneck, says global migration researcher, Professor Lesleyanne Hawthorne. Professor Hawthorne is associate dean international at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and ...

There are signs that Australia’s international student sector is on the up again, with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s latest data showing increases in visa applications and grants, with applications from India on the rise. From January to September ...

Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans says he will ask Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to revoke a state policy that denies hospital care to pregnant international students. In response to recent news that at least one Queensland hospital is refusing to ...

Funding councils in the UK have been trying to find metrics that would be able to replace the costly process of peers reading and judging all submissions. By Jeroen Huisman.