“We expect demand will increase within ASEAN, so we want to be prepared. What gives us confidence is how successful our campus has been here. It’s got that level of growth to be able to support us going forward. This is three decades in the making.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/monash-...
Monash University says its new Malaysian campus, in Kuala Lumpur’s financial district, will open its doors in 2032 and could accommodate more than 24,000 staff and students by 2040. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/monash-...
Australia’s biggest university is planning a twin for its most established branch campus, as international education’s centre of gravity drifts from the anglophone old guard to the gun economies of Asia. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/monash-...
“They have a duty of care to look after their customers, and they need to know their customers’ situation. If the business goes broke, then these students are very, very stranded – and their families are the most exposed if circumstances change.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ask-wha...
“Universities don’t realise where their international education earnings come from. They know the money comes in, but they don’t know how it’s made. I’ve never known any institution to ask: ‘What do your parents do for a living?’.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ask-wha...
The “great untold story” of international education is that the overwhelming majority have self-employed parents who run family businesses ranging from market stalls to accountancy practices, doctors’ surgeries and thriving corporations. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ask-wha...
Most international students carry an ethos of economic self-reliance that shapes their aspirations in ways their Western hosts rarely understand, according to a veteran educational researcher. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ask-wha...
If Oz presses ahead with joining Horizon Europe, the EU will ultimately define the parameters of Australia’s participation and could bar it from projects of scale or involving certain fields. “It’s a bit like sitting at the kids’ table at the wedding.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...
“Australia’s universities are being asked to shoulder the burden of research security without a clear framework or consistent support.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...
Australia’s wavering efforts around research security risks a scenario where “every other country stops wanting to collaborate with you because it’s undermining their security as well”. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...
Australia could jeopardise its European research collaboration aspirations if it fails to strengthen security around its own research, an expert has warned. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...
Australian universities "should insulate" fields experiencing overseas enrolment growth, including education and health, from budget cuts sparked by uncertainty around international education earnings. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/high-gr...
Merging universities does not necessarily result in an uptick in student applications, a new study into the impact of Norway’s far-reaching higher education reform has found. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/merging...
“Canberra is happy to be a tradies’ university. We’re not up ourselves. Frankly, if you’ve got a TAFE qual, you deserve our respect and we’re going to make it easier for you to study here.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/vocatio...
The ACT’s public tertiary institutions have forged what they describe as the “largest-scale” tertiary harmonisation agreement in the country’s history, granting vocational education graduates automatic advanced standing in related degrees. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/vocatio...
“It is about giving students and staff a seat at the table at the highest levels of our universities – making sure our world-class institutions are focused on education, not profit.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/victori...
Victoria has become the latest Australian jurisdiction to launch an inquiry into university governance, saying boards “simply must do better”. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/victori...
Report a “damning indictment” of uni governance and principles a “promising foundation” for reform, but implementation should be mandatory. “We need a significant cultural shift. Will an ‘if not, why not’ approach achieve that shift? I have reservations.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/austral...
“Sitting at the core of most of the key concerns regarding university governance is the issue of transparency, or more to the point, lack of transparency...lack of openness has played a key role in the observed erosion of trust within and towards unis”. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/austral...
Recommendations from an expert council are a “promising foundation” for the reform of Australian university governance, but critics fear they may not go far enough. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/austral...
“The primary goal of the review is to explore ways to boost Australian business expenditure on R&D. But this must not be at the expense of the vital discovery research that will underpin all future economy-boosting Australian innovation.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/austral...
Australia’s transformational research and development review has veered off course, according to learned academies, which say a funding “crisis” is being ignored. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/austral...
The chief lobbyist for universities on Canada’s eastern seaboard will move half a world away, after the University of Southern Queensland chose Paul Mazerolle as its next vice-chancellor. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/souther...
“The majority of international students go home. Advanced economies have a global responsibility to meet the skill needs of poorer nations, particularly neighbours. If we don’t do that, then other countries are going to be more than willing.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/interna...
Australia risks antagonising its neighbours by allowing a “myopic” focus on its internal skills needs to govern its educational offerings to foreigners. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/interna...
