Professor Alan Woodland, an ARC professorial fellow at the Australian School of Business, has received the 2008 Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia. The award recognises exceptional Australian economists for their contribution to the development of economics ...
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COAG’s VET blueprint: demand-driven, contestable and exclusive
All government vocational education and training funding throughout Australia will become fully contestable and access for equity groups will be downplayed, under a COAG national partnership proposal currently being considered by the state, territory and federal governments. The partnership would ...
More »Demand up as economy stumbles
Demand for 2009 university places across Australia is up, with the biggest increases in Victoria at 6.5 per cent and NSW at 5.1 per cent. WA has increased demand of 4.3 per cent, while SA’s demand is up by 2.3 ...
More »Teachers’ turf: integration of the workforces?
You’re 18, you’ve just left school, you know what you want to be. And you know how the tertiary education system works. You know that if you start with an advanced diploma at a vocational education and training college and ...
More »A tale of two unis
One city, two universities. Both are set to embark on redundancy programs, which will shed around 200 academic and general positions. One is being pilloried in the press and hammered by the union; the other is gliding through relatively ...
More »The role of universities in knowledge-based society
Governments, students, industry and now philanthropists and benefactors all fund universities. So just how far can diversity in contemporary university roles be explained by differing sources of revenue, asks Malcolm Gillies. The current global crisis, as it spreads ...
More »Feed the world
While the challenges facing the agriculture industry are not unique, they deserve special attention. Jeremy Gilling reports. The problems confronting agriculture as a discipline and a vocation are familiar to other professional areas. The workforce is ageing – the ...
More »The ethics of accepting funding contributions
The high moral ground on corporate donations for university research can look unassailable. But Stephen Parker has other ideas. For nearly 20 years, governments have given the clearest indication that they are not willing to stump up all ...
More »TAFEs ask Brumby to overturn advertising restrictions
The Victorian TAFE Association has appealed directly to Premier John Brumby to exempt TAFEs from restrictive advertising and communication approval guidelines recently imposed on the state’s public entities. The seven-stage approval process – which can delay ads, brochures and communication ...
More »High qualifications insurance in hard times
Too much training is taking place in lower level qualifications, and there are compelling reasons why this should shift upwards, says Peter Kell. The origins of the global economic crisis lie in the low-wage and low-skills economy that has ...
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