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Potential Chinese students predict more policy chaos in the aftermath of caps being dumped.

Chinese social media users slam foreign student chaos

Students and university leaders are digesting what the blocking of student caps legislation mean for them.

  • Julie Hare
Jon Chew, global head of insights and analytics at Navitas says the global landscape for universities is changing dramatically.

Universities shifting from era of globalisation to intervention

These international institutions are being hit by a wave of forces that is changing the shape of higher education.

  • Julie Hare
Eric Knight, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (People & Operations) Professor of Strategic Management, speaks during the Financial Review and Keypath breakfast roundtable discussion.

What students want out of their uni courses

In a time-poor and increasingly competitive world, students insist on both flexibility and value for their money.

  • Sian Powell
Nick Wailes of UNSW says Singapore provides an exemplar on how to attack skill shortages.

Is there a solution to skill shortages?

When migration is no longer the cure for skill shortages, where does the country turn?

  • Julie Hare

This Month

Foreign student cap plan’s collapse is a sign of the times

Migration is gaining momentum as a policy area voters want the government to deal with. And politicians are tapping into the zeitgeist.

  • Julie Hare
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Higher Education | Future growth

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Student caps row; Alan Jones arrested; Markets ‘dangerously bullish’

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Ravenswood principal Anne Johnstone has been recruited to head the beleaguered Cranbrook School.

Cranbrook gets its first female head as co-education looms

Anne Johnstone, a former commercial litigation lawyer, trained as an English and history teacher and has been head of Ravenswood School for Girls since 2016.

  • Julie Hare
Colette and Charles Assaf have built a network of childcare centres based on the Montessori method.

Montessori Academy childcare founders reclaim control

Street Talk wouldn’t be surprised to see bankers add Montessori Academy to their list of IPO prospects as 95 per cent of the business transfers to the founders.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Crimson Education co-founders Fangzhou Jiang and Jamie Beaton have built a billion dollar business straight out of school.

NZ firm turns $1b unicorn helping kids get into elite unis

The 11-year-old Crimson Education has cracked the billion-dollar valuation after a small fundraising round led by New Zealand venture capitalists.

  • Paul Smith

Labor’s mimicking of Biden on uni debt is inequitable and indefensible

Not satisfied with crippling Australia’s higher education system with its self-destructive student caps, the government simply couldn’t resist doubling down.

  • Steven Hamilton

October

Amit Chand, partner at Potentia.

School’s out: Potentia pounces on ambitious NZ edtech Storypark

Street Talk understands Potentia has emerged victorious in the RBC Capital Markets-led auction, first revealed by this column in July.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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Unis fall in global rankings; Florida’s hurricane alert; Why Harris isn’t playing up her gender

In today’s news, Australia’s universities tumble down global rankings, mass evacuations as hurricane heads towards Florida, and why Kamala Harris isn’t playing up her gender.

International students are staying longer than predicted which is throwing out net migration forecasts.

Student visa surge puts Labor’s migration crackdown in doubt

The number of international students has hit a record, according to official data, even as overseas enrolments begin to fall amid new government restrictions.

  • Julie Hare
Children’s brains are hardwired to learn, and learn fast.

Adult learning is brutal – but tapping your emotions will help

Adult brains are wired differently from children’s and that’s why learning new skills can seem so hard. But don’t give up.

  • Julie Hare
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September

Australia’s five most powerful people in education in 2024

As we hurtle to the end of the year, there are a lot of balls still up in the air for the sector. The question is, how many have landed?

  • Julie Hare
Generative AI entices students with its ability to produce targeted and reasonably well-crafted text in seconds.

Unis need ‘systemic overhaul’ to deal with AI use

The siren call of generative AI is luring university students, and unis are responding with a range of approaches.

  • Sian Powell
Young women are now not only more likely than men to be caring for family members, but also to be in work or full-time education.

Young women are leaving men behind (and not only at uni)

Females are now not only more likely than males to be caring for family members, but also to be in work or full-time education.

  • John Burn-Murdoch
NIDA boss Liz Hughes says its overseas student caps bear little relation to what is on offer.

Cap chaos: NIDA has places for students it’s not supposed to teach

New government data reveals multiple instances of erroneous and confusing allocations of international student caps.

  • Julie Hare
JMC Academy offers courses in film production, game design and audio engineering.

Mercury hits the right note at JMC Academy; buys majority stake

JMC’s alumni include Pacific Avenue’s Harry O’Brien, Universal Music Group’s Brent “Quincy” Buchanan and Animal Logic Entertainment’s Felicity Staunton.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

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