International education earned Australia $20.3 billion last financial year, new Australian Bureau of Statistics figures have shown. This is an 8 per cent growth in export income from the previous 12 months. International education is now Australia’s third-largest export, behind ...
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The University of New South Wales has announced it won’t put any more of its money into fossil fuel shares but it will still keep existing investments in these companies. UNSW released its new Investment Policy on Monday, November 7. ...
More »Indigenous congress struggles to stay afloat following cuts
A bipartisan organisation which has been advocating for improvements in Indigenous education has been cut to the bone and isn’t even able to make its rent after the federal government defunded it in 2014. The National Congress of Australia’s First ...
More »Atlantic Philanthropies donates $65.8 million for leadership program
The Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation – established by American duty-free shopping mogul Chuck Feeney – has made one of its last donations in Australia. It’s pledged US$50 million ($65.8 million) to establish a university fellowship dedicated to tackling social inequity. The ...
More »Birmingham announces panel to reform higher-education policy
Four experts now have the onerous task of sifting through more than 1200 submissions made in response to the federal government’s higher-education discussion paper that was released on Budget night. Andrew Norton, the Grattan Institute’s higher-education program director; Mitchell Institute ...
More »SCU should be like CSU, but different: Shoemaker
Southern Cross University’s new vice-chancellor, professor Adam Shoemaker, wants SCU to become the Charles Sturt University of the New South Wales north coast – while at the same time distinguishing itself from other regional institutions. Speaking to Campus Review shortly ...
More »Noonan proposes new tertiary education financing body
Tertiary education needs a transparent and independent federal financing body to ensure funding is allocated on the basis of a solid evidence base, a new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute has argued. A New System for Financing Australian Tertiary ...
More »Lack of education in poor nations will spread unrest: report
A United Nations-backed coalition of world leaders, Nobel laureates and international business figures has called for a massive expansion of formal education in poor nations, so as to prevent unrest. The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world, ...
More »Study probes how unis can promote mental health
Not tabling multiple assignments to be due on the same day and having a built environment that encourages students to get outdoors are two recommendations of a new study analysing how universities can promote mental wellbeing. "Setting-based interventions to promote ...
More »Quirk hurts CSU drop-out rates in federal stats
A data aberration has caused Charles Sturt University to be misrepresented in the latest federal Education Department statistics. These figures reported that almost half of the university’s international students drop out in their first year. The Education Department’s Selected Higher Education ...
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