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Sniffing the wind

Gillard might be our first female PM. She’s also the first PM in 35 years to step up from the education portfolio. But what does it mean? Last Wednesday was just like any other June day in Canberra. No heat ...

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Applications boom in the boom states

Conventional wisdom is that job booms lead to empty lecture rooms. But the biggest spikes in university applications have come from Queensland and Western Australia. The increased appetite for higher education this year has been most pronounced in Queensland and ...

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The $1 billion promise – or is it?

The Nationals pledge $1 billion to rural and regional education, but the reality might be a lot less. At the recent 90th anniversary federal conference of the National Party, its leader Warren Truss spoke the words that would warm the ...

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Time’s up for Tasmania Tomorrow

Tasmania’s three-way tussle continues over education funding, but the combatants agree that Tasmania Tomorrow is very yesterday. It’s back to the future for the island state. The Tasmania Tomorrow reforms have unravelled, with two of the three post-Year 10 educational ...

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ISCs to undergo Senate scrutiny

A Senate inquiry is to be held into the country’s 11 industry skills councils. The role, effectiveness, accountability and governance of the 11 industry skills councils will come under the scrutiny of a major government inquiry after the Senate last ...

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Universities in cyberspace

The unstoppable truth is that on-campus education will increasingly become obsolete as technology transforms the teaching and learning experience, writes James G Barber. In learning and teaching circles, the most common view of the relationship between education and IT is ...

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