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The boundaries are supposed to be blurring. But this year’s budget has prised VET further apart from higher education, and it’s part of a post-Bradley trend, writes John Ross Sydney Institute can trace its history back almost 180 years to ...

Universities shouldn’t feel threatened by the government’s reserve powers to limit student numbers. The federal government has reserved the right to cap its ‘uncapped’ higher education system, with the bill for the new demand-driven system giving the tertiary education minister ...

The time has come for international education to do some “future casting”. The international education community needs to stop obsessing about the downturn and start focusing on ways to get past it, peak groups say. The executive director of the ...

The federal government’s marketised VET program hasn’t hit the right skill needs. The federal government’s prototype demand-driven program for VET, the Productivity Places Program (PPP), has provided little if any training in four of the five fields the government has ...

The federal government has hosed down plans for a national training guarantee, even though the Victorian prototype appears to have led to increased participation. The federal government has gone cold on its plan to introduce a national student entitlement scheme ...

Austere European governments should keep the razor away from education and research, because it’s “growth-friendly expenditure”, according to the EU president. With European governments cutting tertiary education budgets in response to the global financial crisis, the continent’s universities have warned ...

Europe’s universities and their peak bodies are extending their influence across the South Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Europe’s efforts to build bridges with Latin American university groups could help harmonise the higher education systems of South and Central America, as ...

Labor says better information disclosure will help solve problems in international education. But it’s ignoring its own advice by keeping the sector in the dark over its new consumer protection scheme. Fifteen months after an independent reviewer recommended wholesale changes ...

International education’s worse fears are being realised, with the Indian market collapsing and China following suit. India has all but disappeared as a source of new international students in Australia, slumping to seventh or worse in the league table of ...

The immigration minister has finally wound up a language testing anomaly suspected of discouraging international students. A potential impediment to international enrolments was removed last week when the immigration minister committed to broadening the range of language tests deemed acceptable ...