Australia has shut down eight vocational colleges and cancelled 25,000 qualifications, leaving thousands of students, many international, suddenly without valid diplomas. The crackdown, led by the ...

Andrew Norton is the higher education program director at the Grattan Institute, a research organization in Australia. Updated July 11, 2013, 1:52 PM Australia was the first country to make higher ...

A profit-making beauty college in Sydney went into administration late last year, jeopardising the studies of up to 800 students and leaving 80 teachers and administrative staff out of work. The ...

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SYDNEY—When it came time for Morgan Sills to pay for college, he filled out a simple form and barely gave it another thought. Sills’s tuition, like that of almost all Australian students, is covered ...

The library of an Australian university was evacuated last week because of a suspected gas leak which turned out to be something much different. Around 550 people evacuated the University of ...