The digital age will help everyone learn more, everywhere writes Jennifer Bennett. Online and blended learning offer the opportunity to attend university to more people than ever before, while upending notions of what a university actually is.  Two of Australia’s ...

Students should be the ultimate drivers of quality at universities, and have a right to demand better standards, former Liberal education minister Amanda Vanstone told the National Tertiary Education Union conference in Sydney last week. “Kids who go to uni ...

Higher education has a key role to play in dispelling illusions about Australia’s role in the Asian century, policy expert Simon Marginson says.  The illusions are that Australia is outside Asia and will remain largely unchanged over the coming decades.  ...

Australia in one of only seven countries in the world with more than 100,000 international students on its shores, but the tertiary education sector can’t be complacent. Dr Daniel Edwards, senior research fellow at the Australian Educational Research (ACER), issued this ...

Australian National University academic Des Ball has declared his own war on drugs with the UN. Professor Ball, who works at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU has been following and documenting the illicit drug trade in Burma ...

Post-study work rights for international students at Australian universities must be extended to VET, say the sector’s peak bodies. The Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) and TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) say new post-study visa arrangements, which came into ...

It might be one of the best cities in the world to be a student, according to international rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds, but Melbourne is not all it’s cracked up to be say some residents. Melbourne was beaten only by Paris, ...

The University of Sydney is over-reliant on international students in some faculties, to the point where a sudden drop in numbers would pose a significant risk, an audit by the new quality standards body has found.  But a spokesman for ...

Monash University in Melbourne and The University of Warwick (UK) have signed a new agreement to create an alliance that will clearly establish both as “globally networked universities”. Vice-Chancellor for Warwick Professor Nigel Thrift and vice-chancellor for Monash Professor Ed ...

Just back from a visit to the Chinese province of Anhui, Sharon Bell writes about deepening educational relationships and ponders cultural conundrums. I think we all harbour quite well developed, if not always accurate, perceptions of China: – as an ...