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While academics often dismiss TAFE as a low-status alternative to university, new research suggests TAFE staff can be equally dismissive of university education – with both views often based on decades-old perceptions rather than present-day realities. Research into higher education ...

The tertiary education rank will become less important as a university entry gatekeeper in the post-Bradley world. And people who work in tertiary admissions centres (TACs) should start sprucing up their CVs, according to the vice-chancellor of Swinburne University, Professor ...

Pink batts, local mayors and cash handouts under the federal government’s economic stimulus package had robbed the higher education sector of a much-needed funding boost, according to Opposition education Christopher Pyne. Pyne told last week’s Higher Education Congress in Sydney ...

Is the transition between VET and the university sector a case of spanning bridges or crossing moats full of crocodiles, asks Ros Brennan Kemmis. In her speech of 4 March, Julia Gillard commented that in terms of Australia’s productivity and ...

With the release of COAG’s workplan, Damon Anderson reflects on the skills reform agenda and finds it lacking imagination. We are purportedly in the midst of an education revolution involving major investment in school infrastructure and revitalisation of higher education. ...

The $6 billion higher education overhaul recommended by the Bradley review is expected to be staggered over several years due to the new economic reality. Education minister and acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard told radio host Alan Jones last week ...

Professor Iain Hay likes to teach. He’s also very good at it, having collected a Prime Minister’s university teacher of the year award in 2007. He’s now going to help spread the word for those teaching in the arts, humanities ...

Protest over prayer rooms Muslim students at RMIT University have protested at the lack of prayer rooms, saying they are being sexually harassed and discriminated against. But university management denied it. saying Muslim students were more than catered for. The ...

Private higher education will proliferate as a result of the major policy changes stemming from the Bradley review, along with the federal government’s decision to do away with full fee-paying domestic undergraduate places, according to University of Technology Sydney vice-chancellor ...

If the idea of think global, act local has merit, then Queensland University of Technology is doing its bit for reducing carbon emssions. The university is one of the five members of the Australian Technology Network, which has agreed collectively ...