This Month
100,000 foreign ‘students’ won’t come or will go home under reforms
Over the next year, an estimated 100,000 ‘students’ will either not arrive under new migration rules, or will be pushed to return home.
- Julie Hare
‘Non-genuine’ foreign students to be weeded out
The student visa system will be overhauled with the focus on quality students and providers, but numbers won’t be capped.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- TAFE NSW
Three strong reasons why university is not the only option
It’s time to embrace a broader view of post-school choices and recognise apprenticeships as a savvy choice for Australia’s brightest minds.
- Gary Workman
November
- Exclusive
- International students
Foreign student crackdown could force hundreds of colleges to close
A proposal to suspend colleges if 50 per cent or more of students have their visas refused would see a glut of colleges going bankrupt.
- Julie Hare
The income boost from a uni degree is slumping
The boost to salary from having a tertiary qualification is falling, with the greatest drop for those earning the highest-level qualifications.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Opinion
How red tape is crippling TAFE
We conservatively estimate for every hour a full-time TAFE NSW teacher spends in a classroom, they dedicate an additional hour to administrative work
- Stephen Brady
October
Students not the only ones dropping out for better-paid work
Skills Minister Brendan O’Connor says low pay is a factor in apprentices failing to complete their trades training, but not the only reason.
- Andrew Tillett
Commissions banned, students monitored under visa fraud crackdown
The government says the “roots and loopholes” plaguing the visa system will be over after a raft of reforms and changes this week.
- Julie Hare
For $27k you too can become an analyst with Macquarie
Why go to university when you can learn the ins and outs of financial markets in just six months?
- Julie Hare
September
Big uni targets eroded as students vote with their feet
Education Minister Jason Clare’s ambition to double the number of people with a degree is in stark contrast to a trend of people choosing work or TAFE before university.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Skills
Why being a tradie might be a better option than uni
University enrolments are declining as potential students opt for trades in a heated labour market that is delivering big salaries – without student debt.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Employment
Why a job can be a fast track into poverty
Low-value jobs and mutual obligation requirements for young people on the dole often perversely make them less employable, not more.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Victorian TAFEs push for single employer status
The institutes’ teachers are hoping the Fair Work Commission will pave the way for them to bargain collectively.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- Tony Sheldon
Taxpayer bill for Grill’d ‘hamburger university’ hits $28.3m
The handouts helped boost the national burger chain’s pre-tax profit to $15.8 million even as its boss said profits were being “decimated”.
- Ronald Mizen
August
Crackdown looms on rogue students, colleges
The federal government has stepped in to ward off growing cases of rorting and corruption in the student visa system.
- Julie Hare
Fix education and training to boost productivity: BCA
Australia’s education system is a major drag on productivity, says the BCA, but it doesn’t need to be.
- Julie Hare
The data that signals ‘students’ are coming for work, not uni
Universities are bleeding money as thousands of international students enrol in dodgy colleges as a means of accessing paid work.
- Julie Hare
July
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Australia can’t face the 21st century with obsolete workplaces
The climate transition and AUKUS submarines will put a huge premium on the workplace flexibility that this government has now opted out of.
- Michael Angwin
May
Women to benefit most from new student loans
A Coalition-era policy that gave apprentices loans to pay for everyday necessities will be extended to students in occupations of the greatest skill shortage.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
Adventus raises $20m, as super-agents attract inquiry’s attention
Online student recruitment firm Adventus is going from strength to strength, but the business model of aggregation sites is not to a federal inquiry’s liking.
- Julie Hare
