AUSTRALIA – Panel to crack down on university admission standards

The Sydney Morning Herald - 13 February 2016 Education and Training Minister Simon Birmingham will direct the nation's top education panel to focus on university admissions after a Fairfax Media investigation revealed that the practice of admitting students with lower than the minimum Australian Tertiary Admission Rank into university courses was endemic, ...

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14Feb

NEW ZEALAND – Universities face repeated falls in student enrolment

John Gerritsen - 05 February 2016 New Zealand’s government is promising to reinvest in the country’s universities as they face a big drop in enrolments. The Education Ministry has forecast that degree and postgraduate enrolments by domestic students will fall every year until at least 2019 because there are fewer school-leavers and less ...

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06Feb