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Why are universities establishing more international branch campuses and what are their prospects for success?
I am embarking on the enrolment process for my daughter at the moment and I have chosen the local state school. It runs at an average on the My School website, below average on like schools, and it has had a long reputation for being rough. So why have I chosen it?
Higher education policy development should involve learning from the Abbott government’s mistakes and other counties where university reform has been successfully achieved.
With advances in technology and changes in the demographics of people attending university, the campus experience is changing.
Research shows nearly one in three Australian teachers are so unhappy in their profession they consider leaving within their first five years of employment.
Completing your child’s homework can protect them from failure – a key part of the learning process.
We need to communicate better how schools and universities can understand the process leading to extremism, rather than just providing a checklist of behaviours.
Why the decline in the number of Australians undertaking apprenticeships? What can be done to address it?
Many point out that in 2011 Australia’s public funding of universities ranked thirty-third out of the thirty-four OECD member countries. However the story is not so simple.
Only the brave or foolhardy would claim knowledge about the shape of jobs for the next decade, let alone the rest of the 21st century. So what kind of tertiary education can prepare students?
In recent times, the front pages of our newspapers have provided an almost daily reminder that some Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers are to be avoided.
Previous research showed that school attendance by Indigenous students is negatively affected by racism towards them. In further research we have found wider school outcomes are also negatively affected.
It’s time to start thinking about making language learning compulsory, emphasising the merits of learning an Asian language at school.
Labor has released a higher education policy intended to restart a discussion stalled by the failure of the Coalition’s deregulation package to pass the Senate. What is the point of the promised funding guarantee?
Bill Shorten has said he wants to reduce the number of uni students dropping out. Here’s one way to do it.
The reorganisation of federal ministerial portfolios this week moved early childhood education and care from social services to education. This is a good thing.
Turnbull has said his government is committed to being one “of the 21st century”. So what could that mean for education?
Last week the states agreed to the implementation of changes to the national school curriculum brought about by the National Curriculum Review undertaken last year.
Christopher Pyne’s policies in the education portfolio were underpinned by liberal values of the free market, autonomy and education as a private commodity.
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Shadow Higher Education Minister Kim Carr talks to Michelle Grattan about Labor's new higher education policy.
Lured by government subsidies, registered training organisations are enrolling people into VET courses that do not match their needs and for which there is a dubious case at best for taxpayer support.
Not only is repeating a year unhelpful, it’s one of the few educational interventions that does a great deal of harm.
For the first time in Australia’s history the education levels of parents will be taken into account when funding is being allocated.
With 900,000 Australians expected to be living with dementia by 2050, these are the types of questions more and more children will be asking as they come to know someone living with dementia.