Despite the efforts of some of the world's largest foreign private universities to set up shop in Australia, none have yet succeeded in making a profit from selling higher education - or even attracting significant numbers of students.
Carnegie Mellon University – Australia’s Executive Director and Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Terry Buss, will present on ‘Managing the Global University in Australia’ at the upcoming Inaugural Australian Private Higher Education Conference from 14 – 15 June 2012.
Selected private colleges and TAFEs will soon benefit from the easy-street student visa processing arrangements already enjoyed by universities, under immigration reforms signed off today in Canberra.
Private higher education has grown so rapidly that it now represents 50 per cent of providers and 10 per cent of students, according to a new analysis.
FEE-HELP loans, underwritten by the federal government, have helped bankroll expansion of private higher education. By last year, non-university providers accounted for 29 per cent of $1 billion in FEE-HELP funding, compared with just nine per cent in...
Private colleges say the uncapping of publicly subsidised higher education places has helped rather than hindered them, as an increasing pool of would-be students rejects universities.
Six private colleges in Australia will be included for the first time in the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) application process, which will give the private sector greater weight, writes Jen Rosenberg for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Private higher education colleges will have to wait at least a few more years before they can access government teaching funds, a Sydney conference heard yesterday.
THE Greens say inadequate funding and regulation, not the open training market, are at the root of the problems facing vocational education and training. Greens higher education spokeswoman Lee Rhiannon told a Sydney conference that there was a role for private colleges in VET.
Over the past 60 years a great sea change has occurred in the field of education. In 1950, education, whether in schools, technical colleges or universities, was effectively a state monopoly. Yes, there were Catholic schools and a few Protestant ones, but these two functioned as sidekicks of the great public education system.
Commonwealth funding for university places should be extended to private providers to encourage wider participation in higher education, a Victorian government panel has recommended.
Private higher education providers want fair competition for students. A new national regulatory body will be formed and universities will have to undergo the same accreditation process as private providers. The measures were welcomed by Andrew Smith, CEO of the Australian Council for Private Education & Training.
The collapse of a number of private Australian vocational colleges over the past year is damaging the nation's image abroad, according to angry students, many of them Indian, who have been left high and dry with their visas at risk.
Private schools still dominate university offers in Victoria despite the Gillard government's massive increase in places, with 85 per cent of applicants securing an offer compared with 71 per cent for government schools.
Nearly a fifth of Australian private colleges are "permanent residency factories", a new report in the education sector has revealed. The education sector, which is the country's third largest export industry, has been affected by a string of assaults on international students, particularly Indians. The claims of exploitation of overseas students have also not helped matters.