Has international education in Australia found its way back from the wilderness?  The Knight review of the Student Visa Program, released in March last year, made sweeping recommendations for changes to how Australia dealt with international students, starting with entry ...

Australian governments should look carefully at the economics of extending welfare entitlements to temporary residents, writes Andrew Norton. Public hospitals refusing to admit pregnant international students. Government schools charging fees to the children of international students. International students having to ...

The need for better English, a strong dollar and fewer training places are proving to be a disincentive overseas, writes Annabel McGilvray. After years of rapid growth in international student numbers, nursing schools around Australia are contemplating tightening their belts ...

After a timely review, the government realised the importance of the international sector and acted to protect it. There are many metaphors you could use to describe the international education sector in 2011. It pulled itself out the mud, bounced ...

There can be few things that draw so much national attention in the tertiary sector as international university rankings. Depending on their place in them, institutions either trumpet their results or dismiss them as not being of any importance. But ...

A NSW parliamentary inquiry has backed calls for transport concessions for all international students, noting that this will help them find cheaper accommodation. With the new semester approaching, housing affordability remains a significant concern for  students. The inquiry also recommended registration ...

We have dominated the Asia-Pacific campus playground but there’s a bigger kid ready to move in Back in the 1990s and noughties, America's leading public universities watched Australia's success with envy as we educated hundreds of thousands of full-fee paying ...

The Open Education Resources Tertiary Education Network (OERTen) is an international innovation partnership of like-minded institutions, collaborating on the implementation of the OERuniversity (OERu) with the aim of providing more affordable access to higher education.  At the UNESCO Global Forum ...

The industry can no longer be criticised for failing to convey its value and relevance. From the Colombo Plan to the Knight review, the story of international education is now documented, illustrated and bound in a 450-page book. Launched by ...

Making a Difference is a collaborative industry initiative mooted more than five years ago and produced with support from all universities and other educational institutions, government and industry-related organisations. The International Education Association of Australia provided a secretariat for the ...