Australia’s ELICOS sector is heading for another record year for enrolment number, but overall growth is flat, and the gap between where students are coming from and where they are going is widening.

Australia’s National Tertiary Education Union has renewed concerns international students are being recruited with low English proficiency.

ELT representative body, English Australia, and independent ELT quality assurance agency, NEAS, have agreed to collaborate to boost their efforts in Australia and Asia.

Experiencing across-the-board growth year on year, Australia's industry should be well placed to finish this decade in a much better position than the last. But, as Anton Crace reports, beneath the waves, rip tides threaten to pull parts of its industry back out to sea.

Teachers’ roles in facilitating good educational outcomes for students and the community, as well as the adoption of new and creative modes of delivery were highlighted at the English Australia conference.

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison’s intimation that international students may be pushed away from Sydney and Melbourne has been derided by the country’s industry.

A new guide to help ELICOS providers identify students with mental health concerns and provide assistance has been released.

Australia's ELICOS sector has continued its modest growth, increasing enrolments, student weeks and value in 2017, but a widening gap between the eastern states is developing.