Federal Education Department data, released today at the Australian International Education Conference, revealed that international student numbers have grown by 11 per cent since last year. Steve Nerlich, director of the Education Department’s international research and analysis unit, said there are ...

Liveability and safety are the top reasons that international students come to Australia, new research from IDP Education has found, though priorities vary from state to state. The 'IDP Education Buyer Behaviour Study', which is a survey of 2800 international students ...

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 ...

Credibility, we are told, is everything. In an era when brand, integrity and trust are highly valued commodities, credibility is indeed a prized attribute, one that conveys an individual’s or an organisation’s authenticity, rigour and viability. Opinion polls rate it ...

University of Queensland chancellor Peter Varghese has confirmed UQ won’t divest from the $6.4 million it holds in fossil fuel shares as it “would make no real difference”. He also criticised Queensland University of Technology, which announced divestment last month, for ...

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 ...

A Freedom Of Information (FOI) investigation by Channel 7’s Sunday Night program has revealed only 2 per cent of reported sexual misconduct cases in universities led to the alleged perpetrator being removed from the institution. The numbers are likely just the ...

Former prime minister John Howard has been sarcastically labelled “a cracker of a role model” by University of Southern Queensland vice-chancellor professor Jan Thomas. This was in response to Howard’s comments at the National Press Club in September, where he ...

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 ...

Edith Cowan University vice-chancellor professor Steve Chapman has embraced the title feminist, calling on others to do the same. At Campus Review’s recent Higher Equity conference, Chapman apologised “for everything white male vice-chancellors have ever done”. Chapman, like broadcaster Alan ...