JANUARY 18 2017, Timna Jacks, Henrietta Cook One in three Australian students are not completing their university degree within six years, new figures show. As thousands of students anxiously wait to learn whether they have received a first-round university offer, federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has released data showing about 33 per ...
JANUARY 18 2017, Craig Butt, Henrietta Cook Securing a spot at university has become more difficult, with students needing a higher ATAR to get into most courses. After sweating out the summer in anticipation, thousands of university hopefuls found out on Wednesday whether they had been accepted into the course of their ...
22 Feb 2016 Here are the highlights: A new report maps the major technological trends, and challenges, facing higher education institutions over the next five years It emphasises that blending learning approaches are already being widely adopted but also forecasts significant structural change for institutions by 2020 At all levels, technological change, including the ...
9 Nov 2015 The British government signalled its intention last week to undertake a major shake-up of higher education starting in 2016. An official consultation paper released on 6 November – Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice – sets out a series of proposals that could substantially ...
21 Sep 2015 Short on time? Here are the highlights: In an international survey of 45,000 prospective international students, 90% cited employment outcomes as a primary driver of their interest in study abroad The survey report draws a direct linkage between the students’ expected employment outcomes, immigration policy, and the competitiveness of host ...
12 Aug 2015 Australia’s international education sector has now booked a solid two years of good news. After a few years of decline from the high water mark of 2010, the Australian industry’s fortunes began to turn in 2013. Relatively modest improvements that year gave way to double-digit growth in 2014, ...
23 Jul 2015 For the past several years, experts and higher education practitioners have been touting the benefits of marrying online and traditional face-to-face learning. This approach – generally referred to as “blended learning” – has become more prominent in higher education in recent years and typically combines aspects of both ...
Jul 15, 2015 by Beckie Smith More than three quarters of parents who took part in a worldwide survey carried out by UK-based multinational banking and financial services company HSBC would consider sending their children abroad for university. Parents in Asia, especially, are willing to overcome cost barriers to give their ...
10 Jun 2015 A high-level trends report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) predicts that, by 2050, the world will see a dramatic shift in global economic power away from advanced economies and toward Asia and a block of faster-growing emerging economies. The PwC analysis was released in February of this year. A month later, ...
25 Feb 2015 At the beginning of January, the Canadian government introduced a new application process for international graduates of Canadian universities and colleges wishing to immigrate to Canada: theExpress Entry programme. Under the new programme, international students who have graduated from a Canadian institution are placed in a “pool” with other ...