One of the first reports to make sense of the catastrophe facing Japan urges the country to reconsider nuclear power. Two Australian-based researchers are the lead authors of a well-received international report on the nuclear crisis threatening Japan. Adjunct Professor ...
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Government targets for inclusive education will not be achieved under current pathways arrangements, says NSW TAFE's deputy director-general. Present arrangements for integrating VET and higher education will never deliver the government's ambitious plans for enrolment and SES participation, says TAFE ...
More »Lies, damned lies, and marking
Higher education research moved away from multivariate studies in the 1970s because the thrill of big data was rarely matched by finding out anything interesting, writes Peter Kandlbinder It is a sad fact that if I had to give most ...
More »Youth allowance needs new money, say students
Students want a bona fide review of student income support that doesn’t rule out fresh funds. An upcoming federal review into youth allowance has fired up the National Union of Students (NUS), which says the system needs more money - ...
More »Top education institutions aren’t tops in education research
University research into education is a matter of concern, says Kim Carr. Australian universities’ “widespread under-performance” in education research is disturbing, Innovation Minister Kim Carr told a Parliament House policy forum last week. Carr told the "HASS on the Hill" ...
More »Media's 'gotcha' games wreck debate: VC
With its straw polls and ‘gotcha’ moments, the media is killing debate, a Canberra policy forum heard last week. The nature of modern media and the desire of academics and other advocates to speak freely are coming together in a ...
More »Nationwide VET regulation just a year or so away, says Evans
The federal government is upbeat about the prospects for a genuinely national system of VET regulation, after the NVR legislation narrowly passed parliament. The government has successfully steered its national vocational regulator (NVR) bills through both houses of parliament, after ...
More »TVET to wind up
With all eyes on the legislation to set up the new VET regulator, training ministers have quietly axed the organisation that was expected to house the VET standards agency. The week before the federal government managed by a hair’s breadth ...
More »TEQSA Bill with Senate committee
The devil is in the detail as universities pursue changes to draft TEQSA law Australia’s universities have pledged to battle on to have self-accreditation enshrined in the primary legislation setting up the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) Legislation, ...
More »Research data on international student performance “misinterpreted”
Foster defends her soft marking finding based on statistical analysis Economist Dr Gigi Foster, who interpreted her econometric research data as showing that UTS and the University of South Australia were soft marking international students in their business faculties has ...
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