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Graduate schools in the US have cut their offers to international postgraduate students for the first time in five years, on the back of increased domestic applications and waning interest from India and South Korea. The findings, from the ‘Final ...

While Australian universities already have good quality assurance measures in place, more needs to be done to ensure adequate assessment of student achievement and graduate outcomes, a seminar in Melbourne heard last week. Professor Alan Robson, vice-chancellor of the University ...

The Indian and Australian education ministers have agreed to hold annual talks, in a significant outcome of Julia Gillard’s visit to the subcontinent last week. Gillard said the annual dialogue, which she’d arranged with Indian human resource development minister Kapil ...

New astronomy centre to boost Aussie SKA bid A multi-million dollar astronomy research centre has opened in Western Australia, with backers hoping it will boost the nation’s bid to secure the world’s largest telescope. The International Centre for Radio Astronomy ...

Claims that the University of Melbourne is in the process of acquiring a $250 million secret “slush fund”, which could instead be used to stop the retrenchment of 220 staff, are naïve and wrongheaded, according to a global expert in ...

Students who take all or part of their classes online perform better on average than those taking the same courses through traditional face-to-face instruction, according to a new report from the US Department of Education. And learning approaches that blend ...

The Senate inquiry into the welfare of international students is juggling two proposals on the amount of hours international students should be allowed to work: raising the current 20-hour limit to 24 hours a week, or lifting restrictions altogether. Under ...

Has education been caught in the crossfire over uranium sales to India, asks John Ross. Claims that Australia is racist, based on incidents of violence against Indian students, have left education figures bemused. After all, no Australian officials have denied ...

What is TAFE NSW, Australia’s largest TAFE system, doing about being green, asks John Mitchell. Something strange is happening in TAFE. It’s green in colour and it’s happening in the heart of the most highly centralised TAFE system in Australia ...

The WA government has announced it will overhaul and rebrand its TAFE sector to prepare for a renewed resources boom on the back of the surge in natural gas contracts, the state government says. A new Department of Training and ...