AUSTRALIA

Minister has no timeline for return of foreign students

 
Geoff Maslen
Australia’s universities have no idea when or if foreign students will start returning to their campuses. Due to insufficient quarantining arrangements, universities will have to wait until a rollout of the COVID vaccine is available across the country, the federal education minister says.		 
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Commentary
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Should doctoral education become more standardised?

 
Victor Rudakov and Maria Yudkevich
There is no such thing as a standard doctoral education model, but doctoral education has become a global market with flows of international students, faculty and graduates who create a demand – among top universities at least – for unification of standards and benchmarking.