Over four years, $4m has been allocated for the Premier’s WA Certificate of Education Bursary and $2m for the the Premier’s University Scholarships – both new scholarship...

The migration taking place in Punjab in the guise of international students , who won’t return, is alarming because it is unnatural. There are no...

Published on May 16th, 2022 at 08:30am EDT Last year, Canada welcomed 450,000 new international students, an all-time record. Among the reasons Canada is so...

Over the decade leading up to COVID, the exploitation of international students became systemic across the Australian economy. Multiple reports bemoaned the rampant wage theft...

CHINA After years of receiving extra government funding to push selected top universities up international university rankings, three major Chinese universities will no longer participate...

UNITED KINGDOM Higher education leaders in the United Kingdom have come out fighting against proposed government reforms to post-18 education and funding which they claim...

GLOBAL   15 May 2022 More than 1,500 participants will gather in Barcelona, Spain, for the third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference, to chart a renewed...

AUSTRALIA In an April issue of The Conversation (Australia), the veteran higher education commentator Gavin Moodie casts his critical eye over the higher education policies...

UNITED KINGDOM The commercial education sector has changed beyond recognition in the last 10 years. The explosion of aggregators onto the scene, the emergence of...

This blog was written by former Universities Minister the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP. It is adapted from a speech delivered via video link from...