FEATURE: The state's premier oil and gas training institute has joined forces with Northern Territory-based Charles Darwin University in the search for a training provider to tackle a looming oil and gas skills shortage.
SAE Institute Group, a subsidiary of Perth-based education services provider Navitas, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of California-based creative media school Ex'pression College for US$13 million.
Construction of the $1.2 billion Perth Children's Hospital in Nedlands has passed a significant milestone, with the final concrete for the building poured.
Edith Cowan University has joined Murdoch University in freezing fees for students who enrol in an undergraduate degree this year amid concerns proposed government funding changes could drive down student enrolments.
Murdoch University will wear the cost of exempting students who enrol in an undergraduate degree this year from increased fees as the federal government plans a 20 per cent funding cut in 2016.
Perth-based global education provider Navitas has been ranked among the world's most innovative growth companies by leading American business magazine Forbes.
Former University of Western Australia vice-chancellor Alan Robson is among a group of leading academics appointed to advise the federal government on reducing red tape in the tertiary education sector.
The state's public universities are bracing for a likely fall in revenue next year, with the number of eligible domestic school leavers set to fall as a result of a change to the school starting age a decade ago.
Online education provider iCollege expects to begin trading within days on the Australian Securities Exchange as the company wraps up a reverse takeover of DGI Holdings.
Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten has led a rally of thousands of disgruntled educators in Perth, who have closed more than 100 schools with a strike protesting education funding cuts.
Education provider Navitas has recorded its strongest ever first-semester university programs enrolment figures, with the company attributing the growth to supportive regulatory and visa policy settings.
Kingston International College will move its English language and vocational school to Highgate early next month, to a heritage-listed building it bought from apartment developer Finbar Group for $
The University of Western Australia has recruited BHP Billiton executive Peter Lilly to head up its ambitious ‘engineering zone' project, which comes with a likely cost of $250 million.
Perth residents can now see how their hometown stacks up against the world's greatest cities via a ground-breaking online project, which compares life in global urban centres.
The University of Western Australia will receive a $17 million donation from BHP Billiton for its New Century Campaign, with the engineering faculty and busines school to be the main beneficiaries.
Education provider Navitas has extended its collaboration with La Trobe University, signing a 10-year renewal for its international student partnership.
A slowdown in mining investment has many companies cutting costs, but this hasn't stopped WA Skills Training owner Bob Butson from making a $5 million investment in new premises in Welshpool.
The federal government will go back to the drawing board on schools funding from 2015 after finding what it says is a $1.2 billion shortfall in Labor's scheme.
