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UNIVERSITIES
Overseas students to cop 25pc visa fee hike
As both sides of politics pledge to cut international student numbers, Labor has announced a plan to cash in on visa applicants.
By NATASHA BITA
COMMENTARY
Hungry for knowledge … and starving: poverty shouldn’t be uni rite of passage
Trying to get ahead by studying at university shouldn’t be a recipe for poverty.
By GEORGE WILLIAMS
COMMENTARY
Think smaller to deliver a bigger economic bang for $40bn taxpayer bucks
Government, universities and businesses spend $40bn on research and development into products and services with mixed results. The solution may be to think small.
By STEPHEN MATCHETT
Plea for closer ties with industry
An award-winning scientist has championed closer research collaboration between universities and corporate Australia.
By NATASHA BITA
EXCLUSIVE
Mining and TAFE alliance to pile pressure on universities
The mining industry is backing a new qualification that will challenge universities’ stronghold on bachelor degrees.
By NATASHA BITA
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University boss discounts foreign student ‘phantom factor’
QUT’s vice-chancellor has blamed the poaching of foreign students by private providers as the reason almost half of its new international students dropped out or failed to show up.
By JOANNA PANAGOPOULOS
Coalition pledges $100m for Indigenous boarding schools
The Coalition says ‘immense challenges’ face Aboriginal children living in remote communities, and has pledged to fund new boarding schools for hundreds of Indigenous students.
By NATASHA BITA
 
 
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