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Fewer apprentices commencing training
Fewer people are starting an apprentice or traineeship, the latest early trend estimates for trade and non-trade commencements shows. Estimates, released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Apprentices and Trainees 2013 – early trend estimates, March quarter, More..
Nursing’s Catch-22
Forecasts say the nursing workforce will soon be in crisis, so why can’t nursing grads get jobs? By Antonia Maiolo The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) estimates that only half of the nurses that graduated in South Australia last year have been More..
Disadvantaged at most risk after uni funding cuts
Disadvantaged students will be hardest hit by federal plans to cut $2.8 billion in funding from higher education, according to senior university staff. By Antonia Maiolo Victoria University (VU) reported it stands to lose up to $4.4 million a year More..
Future Skill Demands
 As the pace of change accelerates in our workplaces, we must make sure we are skilling up in ways that are going to match future needs. By Philip Bullock It’s never been easy to predict which skills and qualifications are More..
Continuing a culture of learning
  Emphasis on the fostering of learning is underrated. By Liz Harris The leading weekly business newspaper in Western Australia, WA Business News, often features lots of men in expensive suits and reports regularly on news in the finance, property More..
Grow up, Australia
It’s time Australia quit its unhealthy obsession with high-ATAR cut offs and started ‘massifying’ education in the interests of true nation building. By Jan Thomas Tertiary entrance scores are officially ‘on the nose’. Rather than labelling some institutions as “second More..
The Science of Compliance
One of the risks of running an educational institution is keeping compliant with government regulations. Every six months, I hear of another college hit with a non-compliance transgression for failing to check their students’ visa status or some other compliance-related More..
Gippsland-Ballarat regional uni to proceed
Despite the uncertainty of the times and changes to government funding, the planned joint venture of Monash University and the University of Ballarat will go ahead. Monash vice-chancellor Ed Byrne said, “The impact of the government’s announcement is not yet More..
SA uni holds jam session
The University of South Australia is staging one of the biggest conversations about its future this month. The only difference is that conversation will take place online. On May 29-30, the university will launch a “unijam”, bringing together thousands of More..
Monash pulls plug on IT jobs
Dozens of IT jobs will go at Monash University after it announced workers will be offered voluntary redundancies. The university alerted staff in its eSolutions division of the planned redundancies, and have identified at least 80 of these workers as More..
The future of teacher education
It is not difficult to figure out why there has been so much attention devoted to teacher education lately. ATARs for entry to teacher education programs nationally vary widely and the quality of entrants into undergraduate teacher education is steadily More..
Don’t make study harder
With more Australians getting a degree, it would be a travesty to turn people off with university cuts. National Tertiary Education Union president Jeannie Rea said this in response to the Universities Australia chair’s address to the National Press Club. More..