Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley runs a watertight ship. The report from her higher education review has been arguably the most eagerly anticipated document to swamp the sector in two decades. But Bradley’s leak-proof outfit ensured that the speculation remained just ...
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It’s not just a matter of entitlement
Student demand-driven funding is emerging as the most contentious of Denise Bradley’s broad reform proposals, with some commentators claiming the approach would hurt less established universities and wouldn’t be sufficiently responsive to workforce needs. But others say Bradley had no ...
More »VET takeover proposal applauded
A nationally run vocational education and training system – widely considered as desirable, but politically unfeasible – is now on the cards, with the Bradley review panel calling for the federal government to assume full responsibility for regulating all post-school ...
More »It’s about mass and volume and doing it better
If there is one overarching theme of the Bradley review, it is more students in a higher quality system. These policy objectives have their tentacles in every corner of the 300-page report. Bradley’s target for 40 per cent of 25 ...
More »Life after Bradley
The Bradley report is politically astute and enters the policy mainstream. Its main concerns about participation rates, social equity and VET reform are shared with the Rudd Government. Denise Bradley and her panel have also read the fiscal issues well. ...
More »A discriminating revolution: why VET and HE are divided
Education is about fairness,” then opposition leader Kevin Rudd told the Melbourne Education Research Institute in January last year, marking out a battleground in the forthcoming election. “Australia now needs an education revolution.” Upon which he launched a directions paper ...
More »Selected postgraduates gain income support
The list of masters by coursework programs whose students are able to apply for youth allowance and Austudy was extended last week. The new list adds 86 courses to the 312 approved last year. It now contains almost 400 masters ...
More »Navitas MD named entrepreneur of year
Rod Jones, the founding and managing director of global education services provider Navitas, has been named the 2008 Ernst & Young Australian Entrepreneur of the Year. Since Navitas’s establishment in 1994 and its subsequent listing on the ASX in 2004, ...
More »Ford appointed to national council
A female elder and senior lecturer with Charles Darwin University has been appointed to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Dr Payi-Linda Ford, a senior lecturer with CDU’s School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems, is ...
More »Curtin bolsters Muresk team with new appointment
Curtin University of Technology’s Muresk Institute has appointed Dr Roger Mandel as agronomy lecturer. Mandel joins Curtin from Charles Stuart University where he has previously taught agriculture and viticulture science and conducted research. He has had a long history in ...
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