September
- Exclusive
- Education
Richard White’s Grok Academy in disarray, sacks dozens of staff
The company was founded in 2013 and charged a subscription for its computer skills courses. It pivoted to free classes with funding from the billionaire.
- Jemima Whyte
Only 5000 overseas students for regional unis will live outside CBDs
Regional universities have been told they must fix their enrolment practices and will face separate regional and metro quotas for 2026.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
World-first EV degree sideswiped by allocation of zero students
It took four years and $4.3 million to get Nova Anglia College ready to open its doors, but the government says it cannot have any overseas students in 2025.
- Julie Hare
Extra 21,000 childcare workers needed now: report
Low pay, excessive overtime, lack of career progression and high levels of burnout are contributing to high attrition rates in the childcare sector.
- Julie Hare
August
‘Reckless gamble’ threatens $48b industry
International students are worth billions to Australia’s economy but the government has not modelled the impact of a drastic cap on their numbers.
- Julie Hare
Sledgehammer to crack a walnut: Why caps are not the fix for unis
Universities have plenty of problems, but plans to limit international students look like a political answer to a much more complex problem.
- Julie Hare
Overseas caps could lead to more risky students
As the education sector waits for details on caps on international students, experts warn there could be some dire and unintended consequences.
- Julie Hare
Damian Oyong could save millions of lives. We almost lost him to the US
Australia needs the best and brightest to lead our research efforts, but too often we make it difficult for them to stay.
- Julie Hare
The hidden jobs revealed by the new skills atlas
A new digital jobs and skills atlas shows where the hidden jobs are and reveals surprising new trends, especially in regional Australia.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- International students
‘Careful what you wish for’: The hidden hit in foreign student caps
Foreign student enrolments in Canada plunged far more than expected after the government capped visas, in a salutary tale for Australia.
- Julie Hare
Foreign student crackdown is ‘economic self-sabotage’: uni chiefs
The policy change is over-reach, interventionist, Draconian and probably unworkable, scores of experts told a a Senate inquiry.
- Julie Hare
Telling overseas students what they can study is ‘pointless’
Dictating what overseas students can and cannot study to help Australia’s skills profile achieves little because 84 per cent of them go home, ANU analysis says.
- Julie Hare
Vacancy rates show overseas students being scapegoated: unis
New analysis shows locals in Australia’s three biggest cities have a better chance of finding an apartment in suburbs with large international student populations.
- Julie Hare
July
An exodus from NZ means there are more Kiwis here than ever before
Concessions to give New Zealanders quicker access to permanent residency are contributing to high migration levels.
- Julie Hare
- Exclusive
- International students
Teal MPs seek softening of foreign student cap laws
Legislation to cap the number of international students will be debated this week – even as visa numbers are in dramatic decline.
- Julie Hare
June
Fast-track regional migration moves mooted
Labor has flagged abolishing occupation lists for immigrants looking to settle in regional areas.
- Tom McIlroy
Employee-starved businesses likely to bypass migrant caps: report
Businesses are likely to recruit workers from New Zealand and working holidaymakers, a major report says, avoiding moves by Labor and the Coalition to cut Australia’s permanent skilled migration intake.
- Tom McIlroy and Julie Hare
Higher education key to bigger pay, Labor MP argues
When it comes to the relationship between education and earning capacity, research suggests more is better.
- Julie Hare
Migration finally turns a corner as reforms bite
Net migration hit a record high of 547,000 in 2023, but in the last three months of the year numbers started heading in the opposite direction.
- Julie Hare
House prices would barely fall under Dutton’s migration plan: Grattan
Peter Dutton’s plan to slash migration would have long-term economic consequences, but little bearing on house prices and rentals, says the Grattan Institute.
- Julie Hare