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Cuts announced early last week to Australia’s skilled migration program could cost Australia tens of thousands of international enrolments, particularly in the fast-growing vocational education and training (VET) sector. Dr Bob Birrell, co-director of Monash University’s Centre for Population and ...

It is imperative that Australia sustain excellence in research, but the question is how, says Michael Gallagher. ng research active whatever that might mean. The structure of diversity should be cost-effective for Australia but not limit individual academic staff to ...

There is now a much greater willingness to address the issue of standards, says David Woodhouse. The report of the higher education review calls, inter alia, for strengthened attention to standards. As the Australian Universities Quality Agency turns 10 next ...

The federal government is changing the guidelines for its apprenticeship rescue package, amid fears that the program is too rigid to save apprentices’ jobs. But some training figures still fear the package isn’t flexible enough to prevent redundancies. Last month ...

Adelaide’s bid to become the “Boston of the southern hemisphere” took a big step forward last week with the official opening of University College London's first offshore campus. The UCL School of Energy and Resources Australia will specialise in the ...

Batchelor Institute has sought federal and territory assistance to help resolve its worsening financial situation. Chancellor Yvonne Cadet-James told Campus Review that while the institution was not yet in the red, if immediate action was not taken, the situation was ...

Australia needs a minister for international education to give its third-biggest export industry some Cabinet-level coordination and clout, according to the founding president of the International Education Association of Australia, Professor Tony Adams. Adams, now a consultant, told last week’s ...

A marked improvement in indigenous Year 12 retention rates, revealed in an Australian Bureau of Statistics report, is seen as a good sign for indigenous participation in higher education. But equity experts warn that the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous ...

Australian education administrators will need to be both cautious and flexible to weather the global financial storm, according to an Access Economics presentation to last week’s International Education Roundtable in Canberra. Access Economics macroeconomist Chris Richardson told the roundtable that ...

Carr injects $83 million into high-tech start-up companies Federal industry and innovation minister Kim Carr last week announced the establishment of a new $83 million fund to help cash-starved technology companies. The Innovation Investment Follow-on Fund will be offered to ...