Education

  • Colleges wary of increased scrutiny

    Private education providers have welcomed a proposed crackdown on the financial credentials of colleges that teach overseas students, but worry that some changes will deliver more red tape without improving quality.

  • Bumper year for MBA programs

    Getting an MBA, the Lamborghini of business education, just got more competitive - and costly.

  • Curtin to embed corporate ethics into courses

    Corporate social responsibility is a major focal point for Curtin University of Technology as it implements changes to its MBA program this year.

  • Education briefs

    Renowned philanthropist Greg Poche

  • CQU to fill medical science void

    CQUniversity

  • Talent war looms as recovery firms

    With the Australian economy firmly in recovery and the world emerging from the global downturn, finding and keeping talented people is set to become harder.

  • Big benefits in industry placements

    Students and the organisations they are placed in receive considerable benefits from universities' industry placement schemes.

  • Business wary of universities' 'alien culture'

    High costs, cultural clashes and a preoccupation with short-term profitability remain the major barriers to deeper collaboration between business and universities, a Universities Australia conference has heard.

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