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Do Australian universities provide enough relevant and timely information to potential international students about living in Australia? Paul Rodan investigates. One of the key issues in the current international student debate concerns the accuracy and quality of information provided to ...

Immigration rule changes shock students Thousands of foreign students who enrolled in VET courses in order to get permanent residency in Australia are now unlikely to qualify due to changes in migration rules, a new report from Monash University research ...

The University of Queensland has successfully introduced teaching-focused positions, with academic staff throughout the institution “very positive” about the development and its contribution to the quality of the educational experience. However, there are inconsistent views on the nature of the ...

The number of students receiving government loans to undertake study stints overseas is expected to reach 3205 in 2009, up from 2620 in 2008 and 860 in 2005, when the loans, known as OS-HELP, were introduced in 2005. And the ...

The brain drain ends up costing everybody, and the world needs a diverse community of top-level scholars if it’s going to tackle tricky global problems. But to achieve diversity, the global community first needs to develop a common classification system ...

Australia should not be turning the skilled migration tap off and on, despite the global financial crisis, a visiting expert on migration policy has warned. Dr Khalid Koser, director of the new threats and security program at the Geneva Centre ...

The number of students globally who study higher education outside their home country has escalated 53 per cent since 1999. UNESCO’s Global Education Digest reveals that while China accounts for the greatest number of students abroad (420,000), other major source ...

Former Australian National University deputy vice-chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies has resigned from City University London after disagreements with the university’s council over governance issues. The **Times Higher*** reported last Friday that Gillies announced his decision to resign immediately, although he ...

Flat out, stressed and no time to think is the lot of the modern academic. Joseph Gora advocates organised rebellion. “A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions”Friedrich Nietzsche “Life is what happens to you while you're busy ...

Victoria spends $16 million on TAFE ad campaign Victorian taxpayers will spend more than $16 million spruiking a new state government policy that has increased the cost of some TAFE courses by thousands of dollars, reports The Age. Under the ...