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The national VET regulation faces serious hurdles. National VET regulation has hit a speed bump, with Western Australia saying it will not relinquish control of locally based VET providers that operate interstate or teach international students. Victoria has reportedly said ...

Skilled migration changes are generating mixed feelings Splits are emerging between higher education and VET over changes to migration policy, with VET groups mounting a rearguard action over the latest skilled migration reforms. While student visas remain a chief concern ...

Free help is at hand for lecturers struggling with online teaching An innovative website aiming to demystify the pedagogy of online teaching is now available to university lecturers across the world. The Learning to Teach Online site, which provides professional ...

Photos of indigenous Australians held overseas to be catalogued An Australian researcher is heading to Europe to catalogue thousands of 19th- and 20th-century photographs of indigenous Australians, allowing descendants here to see them for the first time. The images — ...

The great Australian who helped eradicate smallpox has died The nation’s higher education sector lost one of its most treasured and distinguished academics last week with the passing of Frank Fenner, emeritus professor in microbiology at Australian National University. Fenner ...

NBN legislation throws a spanner in reform bills. National VET regulation, a new student amenities fee and better consumer protection for international students will all have to wait until next year, after the Senate ran out of time to consider ...

Proportionately fewer people have tertiary qualifications this year Australia has slipped slightly behind in its effort to meet the Bradley higher education attainment target, with the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with higher education qualifications dropping for the first time ...

Industrial action is threatening exam results at two unis. Macquarie University academics appear set to withhold exam results this week, with a dispute over stalled enterprise negotiations inflamed by the threat of job losses due to a faculty budget cut. ...

At tertiary level the completion of post-secondary qualifications is the only acceptable measure. A New Zealand Treasury official once said to me in a somewhat exasperated tone “But no-one is responsible for educational failure!” And he had a point. Accountability ...

Serious problems in the care of mentally ill prisoners Under-resourced, under-trained and overburdened: this is the situation of Western Australian health professionals and correctional staff looking after male prisoners with mental illnesses, research says. And as a result, such inmates, ...