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The government’s 40 per cent attainment target might be under-ambitious, new data suggests. The federal government’s 40 per cent bachelors completion targets are well on the way to being reached – well before any of its targeted policies come into ...

Meeting recently in Canberra, state and territory training ministers showed they’re right behind Canberra – six months behind, in some cases. John Ross reports. When Commonwealth, state and territory education and training ministers got together in Melbourne in April, it ...

The Victorian decision not to agree to a national regulator for VET reeks of political incompetence, writes Paul Rodan. It was depressing to read that Victoria and Western Australia were holding out against the establishment of a national vocational education ...

A fast-tracked review will consider whether the federal government’s flagship VET program meets current economic demands. A formal review of the federal government’s flagship VET program, the Productivity Places Program (PPP), will be fast-tracked after the country’s education and training ...

The Senate report on international students has taken a stick to state regulators, and wants both a carrot and a stick for agents. The Commonwealth Ombudsman should assume responsibility for international education, and governments and providers should adopt a carrot-and-stick ...

Policymakers the world over are realising the benefits of investing in science, as a new UNESCO report reveals. The number of researchers worldwide is on the rise, with developing countries witnessing an increase of 56 per cent in the five ...

Canada has started a national debate on how to measure and define quality in higher education. Canada is looking to Australia and its work on developing academic standards, as a national debate is emerging about how the country should judge ...

Four Queensland TAFEs recognised The International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) has given one of its three awards for best practice or innovation in international education to four Queensland TAFE institutes. The four institutes were Central Queensland, Gold Coast, Southbank ...

Does a tertiary sector simply mean a one-way flow of VET students to universities, asks John Mitchell. Almost a year after the release of the Bradley report, the public discussion of a single tertiary sector often seems to default to ...

Skills – not schools – are the “overlooked” beneficiaries of the stimulus packages, according to Treasurer Wayne Swan. Most pundits might point to the avoidance of technical recession, the lower than expected unemployment rates, the survival of the banks or ...