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International Higher education loan fiasco sets $185bn time bomb | The Turnbull government ­admitted the risk from “ballooning” costs in higher education as polit­icians blamed each other for policies that will deepen the deficit while lumbering young Australians with bigger personal loans. Simon Birmingham promises more details of higher educationContinue Reading

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International Crisis in Philippines higher education | Among all the countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines, with a population of nearly 100 million, ranks the highest in terms of number of universities and colleges, or what are collectively referred to as High Education Institutions (HEIs).Continue Reading

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International Longtime Advocates for Education Innovation Join Civitas Learning | Civitas Learning, a pioneer in the application of data analytics for higher education, announced today the addition of two long-time advocates for higher education transformation. From a teaching perspective, ‘impact’ looks very different | Debates around the teaching excellence frameworkContinue Reading

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International Graduate outcomes and research are key to furthering innovation | At last week’s annual Universities Australia conference, the opening keynote speaker, Jo Ritzen, ­argued that graduate outcomes have as much impact on innovation as research. The world needs strong higher education in Africa | “It is fundamental that everybodyContinue Reading

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International What confronts 1.2 million new grads? Jobs-skills mismatch crisis: TUCP | MANILA – An estimated 1.2 million college and vocational graduates this month will find it difficult to get a job due to a growing mismatch between their training and the job skills required by most of employers, saidContinue Reading