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Any move towards establishing an agreed set of standards for undergraduate study that is set at discipline level would by necessity be overly prescriptive. In turn, this would have negative impact on institutional diversity while massively increasing the administrative burden ...

Universities Australia has hit back at claims by a Monash researcher that international education earns only half the government-reported figure of $15 billion. Dr Glenn Withers, CEO of Universities Universities Australia, said Dr Bob Birrell’s claims that export earnings from ...

Winning funding from the third round of the EIF is pretty simple: meet the criteria, says EIF chair Philip Clark. "It’s also wise to focus on quality, accentuate the economic and job creation implications, consider a joint project with a ...

<The introduction of ERA is likely to push higher education delivery of hospitality courses even further into the private sector, writes Barry O’Mahony. Once hailed as the most reputable hospitality degree-granting institution in the UK, the Scottish Hotel School is ...

The proportion of 15 to 19 year-old Australians who aren’t involved in employment, education or training is high by international standards, according to a new study for the Australian Social Inclusion Board. But the rate of disengaged 20 to 24 ...

Changes to senior management portfolios within AEI are worrying and have the potential to further lower the profile of international education in Canberra. The changes have alarmed figures in the international education sector who say far from being buried in ...

Australia-India discussions continue The India external affairs minister, Shashi Tharoor, visited Australia last week, claiming his government had no interest in allowing the crisis to “infect” relations between the countries. He said the crisis would die down only when attacks ...

Australia is producing quality PhD candidates across its 39 universities, no matter the perceived research strengths of individual institutions. Furthermore, arguments that research strength equates with excellence in research training are simplistic and narrow. Recent comments by ANU vice-chancellor Professor ...

The federal government’s infrastructure funding juggernaut rolled on last week with the launch of two more rounds of the Education Infrastructure Fund (EIF). Education minister Julia Gillard and innovation minister Kim Carr invited higher education institutions, research agencies and vocational ...