International education earnings up again: UA The ABS International Goods and Services December 2008 trade data shows international education remained buoyant last year, increasing its earnings 27 per cent to $15.5 billion in 2008, according to Universities Australia. UA said ...

There are two ways students can qualify for the Training and Learning Bonus. Firstly if, on 3 February, they were a student or apprentice eligible for youth allowance, Austudy, Abstudy or various other schemes including sickness allowance and special benefit. ...

$42 billion buys a lot of stimulus, for students and many others. It also buys a lot of politicking. When the stimulus package bill hit Parliament last Wednesday, the House of Reps stayed up all night to yell about it. ...

Richard Larkins, vice-chancellor of Monash University, has told the federal Government he opposes a voucher-style funding system for higher education unless institutions can set their own fees. Larkins was a participant in a confidential roundtable meeting with education minister Julia ...

The importance of the Bradley review can’t be denied. But recommendations from two previous reviews have simply blown away in the political breeze, says David Battersby. The final report of the Bradley review of higher education is now with the ...

Last month, Campus Review (20.01.09) ran two articles relating to the social inclusion and integration of international students: one connected to quality assurance at Adelaide University, and the other a more personal reflection from IEAA president Stephen Connolly. Both perspectives ...

University study has long been recognised not just as the pathway – in many cases the only pathway – to a range of professional occupations, but also as the key to job security, high earnings and even good health. Indeed, ...

The Australian Institute of Packaging has reached agreement with the Australian Management Academy (AMA), a registered training organisation which specialises in training for the manufacturing, processing, mining and quarrying industries, to administer certificate and diploma qualifications in packaging for the ...

TAFE is being increasingly divided as its workforce skills and student markets develop quite separately. Add to that resilient staff cultures and there is a sense of unease, says Malcolm White. One reason for the ongoing controversy about the role ...

In this period of economic crisis, should the government abandon its encouragement of high level skills? And should it intervene more in VET? By John Mitchell. Anecdotally, many VET providers are experiencing significant increases in enrolments at the start of ...