The Australian Financial Review | 8 October 2012 More Australian university students than ever are studying overseas, benefiting from increased funding by the institutions and the Commonwealth government’s OS-HELP load program. The number of students who studied overseas totalled 8.1% of the number of those who completed courses last year, the highest figure yet for travel by Australian university students. A study by researcher Alan Olsen for Universities Australia found that 32.7% of the Australian university students who studied overseas last year did so in Asia. Australian students’ travel is dominated by undergraduates, with 12.3% studying overseas last year, which … [Read more...]
CQU to close Gold Coast campus
12/10/2012 By
The Australian | 12 October 2012 CQUniversity (CQU) is to close its Gold Coast campus as a result of the tough international market as well as stiff local competition for a decision to close its Gold Coast campus. New-to-university enrolments at the campus, which is chiefly international, have dropped by around 60% since 2009. With its lease of the “tired” facilities on the Gold Coast due to expire in 2014, CQU deputy vice-chancellor Alastair Dawson says the university would need to build a campus to be competitive and it has better things to do than spend $15-$20 million building a new campus there. Both Griffith and Southern Cross universities have new … [Read more...]