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Greening Australia’s apprentices for Indian students wanting to study abroad. Newly released AEI statistics show a 31 per cent annual increase for the quarter to end March in Indian students commencing in Australian education, including a 14 per cent jump ...

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International briefs

India pushes for commonality among Commonwealth countriestation for the awarding of degrees. But student opposition is widespread and heated, with one campus occupation lasting several months. Hard times at British libraries Research libraries in the US are being pummelled by ...

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Research briefs

Skymapper’s to capture the southern skiespring Observatory. SkyMapper is a custom-built telescope that over five years will undertake the Southern Sky Survey – the first ever systematic digital map of the entire southern skies. In the process, it will produce ...

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Here’s your entitlement – mind where you put it

The federal government has confirmed that TAFEs and private providers are to be excluded from the entitlement-based higher education system, at least for the time being. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations said the government intended to limit ...

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Pay not the main game: NTEU

Pay isn’t the deal-breaker in enterprise bargaining negotiations, National Tertiary Education Union officials said after a day of coordinated strikes in Victoria and Tasmania. Ongoing delays in enterprise bargaining negotiations were behind the day of actions, the union said. So ...

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Teetering on the edge

If everyone buys a simulacrum of the education revolution, why should government bother to fund the real thing? By Simon Marginson. The dust has settled and the cheering has stopped. Once again Canberra has packaged a tertiary education budget with ...

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Rethinking the system

The most likely explanation for the exclusion of private providers and VET from the government’s demand driven system is more fiscal than philosophical, writes Andrew Norton. The 12 May budget confirmed that, contrary to the Bradley report’s recommendation, the government ...

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