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Two-year degrees for UK universities

Protection demanded for international students

Fee for all: why uncapped fees are a political...

Excellence and mediocrity at UNE: AUQA

Pensions as well as postcodes: new SES measure

More skilled migration shake-ups on the way

07 Dec 09

2009: The year that was

Tuition assurance overhaul needed: Baird

International education: keep the paramedics on...

International crisis created at the bottom, but...

The equity year that was

Go8 poor at equity, but great once they’re there

TEQSA: the two-toothed tiger

Goverment still hopeful of income support changes

The man who loves to teach

30 Nov 09

We’re well on the way to 40 per cent target: ABS

Ombudsman for international students: Senate...

Friends, CEOs, moneymen: lend me your hear hears

New standards for foundation programs

Nine universities land in the red

23 Nov 09

MODL students go to the back of the queue

SCU measures its $500 million impact

Victoria toughens registration standards, as...

Lag time: where will the new students study?

Scholarships on the line

Australia missing an ‘unmissable bargain’...

Uncharted waters for infrastructure debt

16 Nov 09

Higher student fees a political reality: Davis

Carr challenges unis to be more radical

Government ramps up the pressure on income support

PM digs deep in India

New cohorts thrive on new campuses: research

Education confiscation: government quietly claws...

Goverment abandons VSU response, for now

09 Nov 09

Mass college closure as former CQU partner crashes

Monash goes for growth

ALTC discipline scholars to define academic...

Stakeholders left out of the loop on AEI...

EIF: $600m still to come

Byrne notice: why Monash needs to get bigger

It’s official: international VET now bigger...

China and India: brace for boom in offshore...

02 Nov 09

Class of 2010: dwindling services, no scholarships

Targeting the top end: unis court international...

Call for clinical training places with GPs,...

Employers shun overseas graduates: surveys

Tasmanian teachers strike, as ACT looks to copy...

A beginner’s guide to philanthropy: ask, lead...

La Trobe signs enterprise agreement

UniSA’s holistic approach comes up trumps: AUQA

Senators’ solution to youth allowance rorts:...

‘Knee-jerk’ regulations could scuttle...

26 Oct 09

Worsening VET results prompt call for rethink

Tertiary selection on the verge of major reform

Opposition jumps at shadows

Labor MP wants cooling-off period for residency...

Talking it up: why a social life is good for...

'Demographic survival' driving competition in...

19 Oct 09

Aussie dollar “headwinds” to hit education...

UWS offers first ‘US-style’ PhD

Aussie qualifications provide an ‘employment...

Senate showdown looms for student amenities and...

Dollars, discernment – and diplomacy

Legitimate concerns behind media distortions:...

A lofty ambition, and some generous plaudits

Recession a fizzer? Not if you’re a teenager

French connection

12 Oct 09

Transnational education isn’t taking over...

International losses could jeopardise Australian...

Going in to bat for student safety

Untapped PhDs: solution to the workforce woes?

Levelling the AQF in the post-Bradley era

06 Oct 09

MCTEE signs off on international student...

AUQA questions scholarly culture in Ballarat...

The secret of labour market immunity: a degree

Universities to share $2 million to protect...

UWA to appeal to high court in epic IP case

Monash, Holmesglen secure affordable rental...

Insearch negotiated change process well: AUQA

28 Sep 09

Pyne plan will cost students dearly

Victorian coalition to tackle low-SES...

One country not enough: Baird

Too much regulation – and Bradley could make it...

Kaplan looks to set up teaching-only university...

Briefs National

It’s a Nobel life

Government responds to research report

A reforming frame of mind

21 Sep 09

Cross-sectoral skirmishes: TAFEs and unis raid...

Transport concessions: Sydney and Melbourne face...

Reviving Oz medical research will take $100m –...

ESOS amendments aren’t enough: Coalition

International students branded as victims, even...

USQ reform process given AUQA tick of approval

International student satisfaction rates...

More industrial action likely before end of year

Delay of bill could cost $100 million

14 Sep 09

Higher education in TAFE hampered by poor policy

Women right on target

Fellowships look to the future

UWA case highlights researchers’ rights

Budget-neutral changes undermine equity measures

Peer reviewers satisfied with system

07 Sep 09

International education exports top $16 billion

Sydney disagreement brings unis to the brink of...

Greens demand national student card

Nuclear smokescreen? Here’s a conspiracy theory

The working hours question: 24 or free-for-all?

Online learning more effective than face-to-face:...

Melbourne’s $250 million campaign completely...

India, Australia agree to regular talks

Understanding the standards of student achievement

31 Aug 09

Income support revamp could fail

Heavy-handed treatment of agents could backfire

Universities not a cure-all

Universities needs “re-moralising”: Schwarz

SCD an enduring federation: AUQA

Consultation is the key: communiqué

24 Aug 09

Present again: Gillard’s plan to weed out the...

NTEU not engaged in pattern bargaining, says Fair...

Amenities fee: Ellis shapes up for round two

AEI: the Indian giver of market intelligence

First TAFE nursing intake challenges education...

Evans amplifies visa scrutiny

Students expect little action on youth allowance...

Curtin proposal for medical school risks...

India to regulate its own agents

What’s a PhD worth?

NMIT’s higher education seamless, but at times...

17 Aug 09

Unmet demand snaps back, as stuttering economy...

Finding a meaningful response to standards

International review will stick to ESOS issues:...

Fairfax apologises to Yerbury

Fix rorts – but don’t break the...

New SES data raises new questions

Professional body refuses to accredit UWS course

Macquarie’s “bold” vision on track to...

10 Aug 09

Standards do not mean standardisation: AUQA

Claims that education half its estimated value...

EIF success is simple: Clark

Unis making progress on 10-point plan

New India-Australia Institute to mend fences

Let’s outlaw academic copyright: Harvard law...

Fight or feint?

New vistas opening for e-publishing

More infrastructure funds come online, but less...

Does bigger mean better for PhD training?

Changes within AEI threaten profile of...

03 Aug 09

International student bailout arrangements not in...

Compacts with teeth concentrate research

A class act

Kopp this: in defence of a radical graduate...

Melbourne to shed up to 100 staff as GFC bites

Wanted: “boundary spanners” to help fix the...

Just another week in international education

Old before they’re educated

Australia less safe: non-Indian students

27 Jul 09

Further education hindered by poor work-life...

It’s time for self-accrediting VET: TDA

SCU, CSU quit merger talks

Gillies resigns from City University London

International student numbers skyrocket globally

Report urges caution on skills and migration

Doctoral education: standardisation now,...

Student mobility on the move: AEI

UQ leaders in teaching and learning: AUQA

A repair manual for international education:...

21 Jul 09

Seesaw stats show the migration system is skewed

How to be an associate professor in five years

Journals should give researchers a break

National regulation – but not necessarily a...

IRU takes CDU into the fold

14 Jul 09

Online education tops growth industry list

‘Death toll’ report challenged: DEEWR

ALTC citations deliver far and wide

UWA’s vision bold and realistic

Holmesglen nursing decision: anomaly or precedent?

07 Jul 09

Transport concessions: no olive branch for...

An enriching engagement

Another VET compact announced – but will it...

New student safety strategy

International students safer than locals: stats

Silver lining in Senate delay: UA

Union demands 16 per cent minimum

29 Jun 09

Gillard misinterpreted OECD data, but so did...

Universities vulnerable on international...

Impact of rankings nuanced according to country

RMIT caught in Singaporean scam

We’re not racists, but ...

Aussies prejudiced? Maybe – but who isn’t?

Risk and impact: centres of excellence

22 Jun 09

Student transfer: it’s no simple step

More go to uni, but have a gap year in between

No teeth – but plenty of tension

La Trobe shines light on regional provision

State budgets head south, but leave something for...

Protests reflect Indian culture and media – and...

Equity measures will not drop of standards

15 Jun 09

Calls for Senate inquiry get louder

Education ministers show united front

UWS suspends EBA negotiations

Plagiarism with a difference

Path to policy objectives unclear

Teaching and learning plans need more effective...

09 Jun 09

Universities fasttrack deferral policies

IDP to recruit for US universities

Message to lobbyists: accentuate your affirmatives

A private affair

Time for real action

Change agenda taking its toll on tiny college:...

01 Jun 09

Roundtable proposed as India calls Australia...

Swine flu hits campuses

Capital qualms as EIF digs deep

In the hear and now

Help is at hand for the dilatory postgraduate

World first ready for an update

Tension between sectors undermines reform...

ALTC fellow learns on the job

Compacts will have teeth: Rudd

25 May 09

Here’s your entitlement – mind where you put...

Pay not the main game: NTEU

Sackings threat story a distortion: UNSW

No dead end review for Bradley

Violence against Indian students not racially...

'Churn and concern' over income support

Fake journals undermine academic publishing

Come together: Queensland unis tackle...

18 May 09

The Pollyanna principle

Research funding up, but make sure you collaborate

No place for TAFE in student-centred higher ed?

Budget briefs

Victoria leads the way to universal entitlement

Student poverty finally addressed

Budget bonus for postgrads, postdocs

11 May 09

Concerns with the NLC and other matters

Thin edge of the wedge?

No budget joy from the states

Uni graduates do better – especially the blokes

Opening the doors a little wider

AUQA’s smallest audit provides its own...

Greens call for inquiry into international...

04 May 09

Sydney locks in with 17 per cent pay increase

Pressing times: Rudd announces compact with...

COAG concurs on cohesive regulation and licensing

Restrain prices or we’ll both suffer, libraries...

Study reinforces need for inclusiveness and...

Bringing the world’s treasures to your desk

Looking for equal footing on uneven ground

27 Apr 09

International student group muscles in

A third of students at risk of dropping out:...

Articulation problems: has Dawkins bitten off...

Increased university funding a no-brainer: UA

International education undermines domestic...

Repacking compacts: where to now?

20 Apr 09

It’s time for transport parity: Committee for...

Tax case may open door for mass deduction of...

Vexatious litigants: new protection will help unis

Further doubts raised about training of overseas...

Indigenous strategies that work

14 Apr 09

Enrolments on the upper – but stand by for the...

Education the great leveller? Not in Little...

Internationalising the brand

Curtin Sarawak turns 10

News briefs

letter to the editor

Not the GFC, again

Universities receive Easter surprise of $43...

Dual sector has lots to offer in post-Bradley...

06 Apr 09

Design your own degree at Swinburne

Bologna’s no sideshow: Schwarz

Unaligned unis have strength in numbers

India, Korea join the billion dollar club

Victoria to develop higher education plan

Unis and VET need a digital revolution too: IT...

Migration authority should regulate student...

The secret history of Bologna

30 Mar 09

Two-way prejudice: outdated perceptions hamper...

TER's influence set to wane

Pink batts stole my kids'education

Students and tutors ready to embrace the Twitter...

Skill shortages in the eye of the beholder

Big ideas take small steps

Prepare for a private explosion

Bradley reforms likely to be staggered

Getting the word out

23 Mar 09

Graduate salaries level pegged no matter where...

Skilled migration cut will cost international...

Access Economics’ survival strategy: play it...

Indigenous school retention gives rise to hope

Give international education its own minister

Batchelor heads off going into the red

UCL sets up shop in Adelaide

16 Mar 09

Research funding: it’s still wait and see

Merger or dressed-up national policy?

VSU lost sight of the main game

VSU yoga: pollies adopt uncomfortable positions

GFC: let’s gain from the brain drain

Fulbrights get toxic

NTEU heads north

The rural and regional battleground

09 Mar 09

Government response will bring back the snakes:...

Carr pours water on Bradley’s broad-research...

Show of faith

National Briefs

Work experience a mutual obligation: study

Raffles gets ruffled by AUQA

Street inquiry at UNE discontinued

02 Mar 09

Rich get a richer education

Libs say $250 is compulsory student unionism

House of cards? So what, say the bean counters

Think uni, act kindy

Get your hands dirty – and don’t wash them

23 Feb 09

UC offshores 50 jobs to India

Stimulus struggles: government stumbles into the...

National news briefs

Boulding’s law

Tougher going for graduates in 2009 and beyond

Implement Bradley basics now – but not vouchers

Avondale experience get’s AUQA stamp of approval

New fellowship for senior indigenous researchers

Welcome to Melbourne, but mind the mugger

16 Feb 09

20 new campuses needed to fulfil Bradley’s 40%...

Peace Scholarships victim of efficiency measures

Wriggle room: where Cutler and Bradley intersect

Applications up, as the work-wary seek refuge

Part time research students

09 Feb 09

Voucher stoushers: what’s the price tag?

Stimulated students say thanks – but keep it...

Keeping them there: why first year matters so much

Uni chief tells Gillard: no vouchers without...

– A $42 billion argument

Student bonus – how it works

National news briefs

GMS does deal with SinoEd, Laureate buys...

LTPF pays dividends

02 Feb 09

Single government response to Cutler and Bradley...

Research quality comes from unexpected quarters

Australia now playing it safe on safety: Nyland

Notre Dame Sydney set to grow five-fold

Letter to the editor

Victorian taskforce reports

Indian resistance: new group advises on safety

Domestic dispute: it’s international divorce...

Curtin ticks the boxes, UC a work in progress

AUQA and its critic exchange blows over review

27 Jan 09

Don’t call the paramedics just yet

Applicants up, offers down: supply checked by...

Further education: the great leveller – once...

AGSM tops MBA rankings

Briefs - National

22 Dec 08

Well-kept secrets and a few surprises

It’s not just a matter of entitlement

VET takeover proposal applauded

It’s about mass and volume and doing it better

08 Dec 08

A discriminating revolution: why VET and HE are...

Age shall not weary them: ACU National staff...

Population better educated

CRCs are for public good: new guidelines

Selected postgraduates gain income support

01 Dec 08

Nursing approval removes brick from wall between...

Fair Work bill significance disputed

Australia flies high, but is it credible?

Two claim teacher of the year award

Look within and then collaborate

Australian academics caught up in Mumbai, Bangkok

Wanted: future QCs to teach at Strugglestreet High

Don’t mention the war: NSW inquiry into...

24 Nov 08

What crisis? International education on the up

Female-led renaissance at Deakin

Westie chick finds pulse, opens medical school

Australia: the lightweight heavy-hitter

VET market reform off the boil

17 Nov 08

Will that be noodles or spaghetti with your...

Citizen HECS

Commissions soar – but you can’t live without...

Inside the tent: science and higher education...

JCU caught in Singapore crossfire

Decision will force unis to the table: NTEU

10 Nov 08

VSU round 2: it's union vs uni

Obama's higher education policies

VSU: stand by for some fine-grained distinctions

It's not my fault, my speechwriter made me say it

Textbook charge abuses could be widespread: NUS

03 Nov 08

Opening the gate to community engagement

Stone fairy enchants Canberra, 34 years on

Dawkins: the revolution that almost wasn't

A unified national system? Get real: Chubb

Postgrads stay close to home

Get ready: demand to explode

Ballot decision stymies industrial action at VU,...

27 Oct 08

A tale of two unis

Teachers' turf: integration of the workforces?

Demand up as economy stumbles

COAG’s VET blueprint: demand-driven,...

20 Oct 08

Keeping international graduates out of jobs:...

225 staff to go at VU

Australia’s education globally competitive

Top 20 make Australia number 3

Complement the compacts: Go8

Trickle-up theory goes down the drain

13 Oct 08

The sound of a crispy chip being eaten

The results are in, but are they credible?

International research database reprimed: IDP

Money troubles: education can weather the storm

CDU trounced at ballot

Monash stakes claim in diversity stakes

Six slip or dive into the red

International education robust despite turmoil

06 Oct 08

Portfolios of choice

Nobel largesse: odds on winners

Education more than just great trade: Mortimer

Collecting agencies should collect competitive...

The export that keeps on giving

EBA negotiations stumble as management hands out...

29 Sep 08

Media savvy and ambassadorial: the fellows of the...

Diversity thrives in university salaries

Collaborate, or else: Cutler

Comment

26 Jul 10

Is that it?

The story continues …

Pay for performance

19 Jul 10

Remodelling dual-sector universities

From mass to universal higher education

12 Jul 10

The age of ageism

05 Jul 10

From time poor to time jealous

Letters to the editor

Mature age productivity

28 Jun 10

Universities in cyberspace

The next step

E-learning capability requirements

21 Jun 10

Riding the credential carousel

Dateline: Chicago, USA

Let them eat cake

15 Jun 10

Rewriting history

Bridging the learning gap

07 Jun 10

Where do the dual sectors fit in?

The new currency

Tertiary sector opportunities and obstacles

31 May 10

Where do the dual-sectors fit in?

Physical campuses and the pull towards virtual...

24 May 10

Is the East rising?

Have green skills become browned off?

Trouble at mill

10 May 10

Letter to the editor

Cost and quality in Australian research

03 May 10

Pyne’s education non-revolution

A modern morality play

27 Apr 10

Opportunity or opportunism?

A measure for all things?

Letter to the editor

e-generic: skills for the future

12 Apr 10

Quiet support for Victorian fee hike

Watch this teaching space

Telling porkies

What's in a name?

06 Apr 10

Watch this teaching space

Shortage of learning specialists

30 Mar 10

What glass ceiling?

Beyond o week

Leading the way

Pathways and problems

The ERA of obscurity

15 Mar 10

What talk about standards?

Remembrance of policies past

How are private providers performing?

08 Mar 10

Righting past wrongs

01 Mar 10

Citizenship blues and reds

Towards 2020

Backfire: the game of economic logic that went...

All tied up

22 Feb 10

The East is rising

15 Feb 10

Coherence or confusion?

Compacts: an opportunity for reform?

Youth Allowance: it’s time

A measure of quality

Diverse regions need diverse solutions

A problem deferred

08 Feb 10

The new university teacher

01 Feb 10

What’s fair about defining disadvantage?

Indicating quality – or not?

Looking beyond supervised placements

If not education, then what?

25 Jan 10

Australia is not a racist country

18 Jan 10

International student security

Dimensions of inclusion

State as nation state

07 Dec 09

Measure for measure

The gospel according to St Julia

Two years on

30 Nov 09

MCTEE takes cooperative federalism to new heights

What is Victoria thinking?

23 Nov 09

The broader benefits of international students

How open is online education?

Disciplines setting standards

Falling through the cracks

16 Nov 09

Australia on parade

09 Nov 09

Excellence requires autonomy: Shanghai conference

Worth the while

Gaming & the grants system

Characteristics of contemporary elite universities

02 Nov 09

What next? How young people are faring in 2009

26 Oct 09

Taking a long-term view of participation

On a two-way street

The six Ps

The AQF challenge

Unprecedented competition & global surveillance

19 Oct 09

Watching from the sidelines

I wish to register a complaint

12 Oct 09

How ERA will stifle innovation

Supporting a compelling vision

Sharing the load

06 Oct 09

MCTEE promises transparency, but we’re still in...

Resignation at Southern Cross University

A transit in Azkaban

28 Sep 09

Students in the driver’s seat

A compact mission

An the award goes to...

Promoting inclusiveness

14 Sep 09

Stepping into standards

Going global

Coming on board

And the award goes to ...

Language & integration

The modern chancellor

Three challenges for equity

07 Sep 09

One sector, multiple players

31 Aug 09

The profitable margin

Diversity in the private sector

Heading towards 2012

24 Aug 09

How the other half (may) live: university presses...

Mitigating plagiarism requires shift in emphasis

Some thoughts on restructuring

17 Aug 09

Accreditation is not a dirty word

Getting regional provision right

Time to act is now

Heading towards 2012

10 Aug 09

Universities’ kitchen nightmares enter a new ERA

Good teaching matters

Shock, horror: international education in the...

Undermining international education export...

Is whackademia bad for your health?

03 Aug 09

Knowledge production in Australia

False start for national university

Up in arms

Looking at leadership in teaching and learning

The standards fare

27 Jul 09

Advising international students of risk

Sorry, I’m too busy

21 Jul 09

Adding balance to the hysteria

Sydney-Leeds-Amsterdam

A just ambition

When equity is just not enough

14 Jul 09

ARC grant process counterproductive

Lost in the past: technology and teaching

07 Jul 09

ERA undermines education research

Have you finished your marking?

A global prospective

Policy and beyond

29 Jun 09

Against the cultural stereotype

22 Jun 09

Lost in the past

International appeal

Right on target

15 Jun 09

Are you going to the staff meeting?

09 Jun 09

On a sticky wicket

Rethinking applied research

Getting the balance right

Fringe dwellers

25 May 09

Teetering on the edge

Rethinking the system

Into the mix

Delivering benefits

18 May 09

Walking the talk

Powering ideas and innovation

Slog-fest!

11 May 09

The ABC of university governance

Practising good principles

International investment

04 May 09

Putting research on the policy agenda

I can’t wait for my next performance review...

27 Apr 09

Our gift to the world

Paying dividends

20 Apr 09

Understanding the new VET professional

Jockeying for equity

14 Apr 09

2025: getting the focus sharper

The case for an early start

Driving change at Sydney

06 Apr 09

Spotting the great universities

Is there hope for the unit information guide?

30 Mar 09

The fate of compacts

Another equity and diversity smear campaign

Australia’s engagement with the Pacific

23 Mar 09

Australia and its research universities

The path to standards

16 Mar 09

Running the gauntlet

Is there a crisis in international learning?

Bludgeoned by a postcode

What green deal?

09 Mar 09

Universities for the 21st Century

Against the academic workhouse

Par for the course

Rethinking the international student experience

02 Mar 09

Ladder of opportunity

Floating the research boat

Concentrating on research

A comment on Bradley

VALE JOHN MULLARVEY

Social inclusion is the path to progression

The problem with equity

What works

A friend remembers

23 Feb 09

Rethinking the first year of university?

Bradley review lacks vision

Making international students safe

Future demand

Language of ability

16 Feb 09

Talk about a revolution

Universities in an emerging context

Across the divide

Proving its worth

09 Feb 09

English competency - it's not that simple

Social inclusion and integration

The decade of higher education reviews

02 Feb 09

10 reasons

A worthwhile public investment

27 Jan 09

Taking flight

Filling the academic void

Global economic crisis may affect education...

22 Dec 08

Life after Bradley

08 Dec 08

Parallel universes

The price of competition

01 Dec 08

Making the connection

Crime and prevention: plagiarism

Open debate an essential right

24 Nov 08

VSU took light out of university life

Vibrant and valued

17 Nov 08

Come together: an Asian Bologna?

The first Tuesday in November

10 Nov 08

Investing wisely for Australia's future:

27 Oct 08

The ethics of accepting funding contributions

The role of universities in knowledge-based...

13 Oct 08

Going for broke

06 Oct 08

Seize the day

22 Sep 08

Crossing the border, but keeping on track

15 Sep 08

The future of university finance

08 Sep 08

Regional communities need strong universities

01 Sep 08

An argument for randomness

25 Aug 08

Compacts not so compact

18 Aug 08

The Gordian knot

The politics of fear on a warming planet

A surprising omission

UNE brouhaha picks up steam

VET

26 Jul 10

Regional TAFE fight back

Resources sector squibs training

Bonus question for new apprenticeships panel

19 Jul 10

South Australia claims space in international...

Skill sets and community providers: SA plots its...

Polytechnic positioning

12 Jul 10

Thinking big: South Australia’s training...

Public training getting more private

Fewer apprentices start – but more finish

Fiscal year closes – and so do more colleges

Big ideas, and a few blank spaces

Has VET’s time for equity come?

Successfully navigating contracts

28 Jun 10

Time’s up for Tasmania Tomorrow

ISCs to undergo Senate scrutiny

21 Jun 10

High costs of multiple regulators

15 Jun 10

TAFEs lose out, as literacy funding gets...

Specialists not novices for e-learning

07 Jun 10

Unsureness over assurance arrangements

Call to suspend Victorian skills reforms

light in dark days

31 May 10

Tuition assurance mechanisms struggling

Looking beyond the My Skills website

A new Victorian era?

Queensland to cut 200 TAFE jobs

24 May 10

Contributing to super profits

17 May 10

External workplaces bridge the sectors

10 May 10

Looking to the past to see the future

TAFE can lift its game and deliver on its promise

03 May 10

Getting apprentices over the hump: loans, tax...

Productivity possibilities

27 Apr 10

Education workforces to come under microscope

Explicit messages from government

As good as it gets

19 Apr 10

Victorian VET eligibility criteria ‘need...

High jumps or hurdles

Top providers suffer

High jumps or hurdles

Top providers suffer

12 Apr 10

Realities of industry currency

Apprenticeships for migrants?

VET’s day of reckoning

Revolution doesn’t extend to VET in schools

06 Apr 10

Franchising the best option: TAFE chief

30 Mar 10

Guarding the brand

Federal funding the best fit for VET: Davidson

Small business solutions

22 Mar 10

Crashed college to students: pay now, pay less

Pilbara reinvention

15 Mar 10

Future governance models

08 Mar 10

VET a partial equaliser for people with...

For and against teacher standards

VET data bodes badly for targets

01 Mar 10

The VET system’s panacea

Opportunity to innovate

Speak to me

22 Feb 10

Howard starved TAFEs worse than unis:...

Elevating the profession

VET workforce older, casual, better educated –...

15 Feb 10

Worth their weight in gold

08 Feb 10

Fly-by-night giant ‘doesn’t pass the smell...

TAFE says to Treasurer: Me too

Tassie guarantee shadows its northern neighbour

No time for time management

Technology shove for educators

More disruptions at TAFE NSW

01 Feb 10

TAFE reels under falling funding

Driving capability development

TAFEs demand moratorium on private colleges

'TAFE' brand on ice out west

25 Jan 10

Circumventing controversy over teachers

COAG apprenticeship reforms welcomed

18 Jan 10

National regulator to override states for...

Renewing a TAFE workforce

PPP delivers more jobs – but more of its...

07 Dec 09

COAG targets closer than official count

Last ATC to close?

Leaning towards a new model of organisation?

Market-based thinking in VET

30 Nov 09

Rapid audit for the PPP

One tertiary sector over-simplified

Swan’s stimulus success story: skills

23 Nov 09

National VET regulator: Victoria, WA spoil the...

Widely spread scholarships get the nod in...

Swinburne collects large training award

No single measure

Preparing for full contestability

On a positive note

16 Nov 09

Youth Compact: Victoria accelerates contestable...

It’s the commencements, stupid

Deinstitutionalising equity

Victoria shows its flair by trading its wares

09 Nov 09

Keeping up with the Joneses

VET funding outlook bleak

VET leadership alive not static

PPP the 'Trojan horse' of VET

02 Nov 09

Overseas students, employers keep TAFE’s head...

Carrots not necessary for successful...

Pathways to performance

26 Oct 09

Reconciling learning and skilling

Upturn presents new challenges: Shreeve

19 Oct 09

New apprenticeship program

Benefits of staying at school

It’s not just skills – it’s how you use them

12 Oct 09

Training by enterprise RTOs “largely...

Upping the ante

Success for newly arrived people

06 Oct 09

Dodgy provider – or caught in a regulatory maze?

College closed after Victorian audit

VET underfunded – but not just in NSW

NARA pushes its case

Market-based TAFE colleges

28 Sep 09

December D-Day for the PPP?

Briefs VET

How hard is that?

Reassessing VET in schools

21 Sep 09

Government cheerleaders join the PPP knockers

NBN to be a bonanza for training providers

The bottom line for e-learning

14 Sep 09

International VET now, PPPs next: AEU warns of...

The importance of good teaching

07 Sep 09

Trades commencements take a tumble

More transparency essential, inquiry told

WA revamps training sector

Government’s corps promise

Green shoots in TAFE

31 Aug 09

NCVER’s vision for the future: integrated stats...

Systematically improving apprenticeships

International branding under threat

24 Aug 09

Lessons in skills development

It’s not just agents – consultants need a...

Universities, TAFEs and polytechnics

VET middle managers work for and against reform

Size matters in VET

Support found to be wanting

17 Aug 09

A paler shade of green

It’s true – TAFE does carry a heavier...

TVET support work vital: Davidson

Quality international providers

10 Aug 09

U-curve bends around COAG targets

Intersectoral relations need a student’s-eye...

Positive legacy of the ATCs

03 Aug 09

Going to a higher place

PPP prospers – out west, anyway

International test proves training packages...

Training times falling, attrition rates stay at...

PPP prospers – out west, anyway

Beyond ‘built-in not bolted-on’

TAFE reinvention through innovation

27 Jul 09

PPP becomes a little more compact

Funding cut by another name

Putting the V-E-T in R&D

Rethinking TAFE culture

21 Jul 09

Safer than houses

Beyond the here and now

Heretics challenge VET orthodoxy

14 Jul 09

Indigenous training up, but other equity...

Positive energy for competitive success

Females outnumber males in school-based VET

07 Jul 09

ATCs look to a cloudy future

Sophisticated, systematic evaluation

29 Jun 09

GFC and youth unemployment: OECD recommends...

Boosting the confidence of the best

22 Jun 09

Children of the revolution

32 TAFEs share infrastructure funds

Training: the answer to a greying world

The benefits of selling out

15 Jun 09

Questions raised over employer training subsidies

Realistic strategists accept uncertainty

09 Jun 09

Whither TAFE?

VET reform the key to balanced recovery, says AEU...

TAFE no poor cousin to university

Marriage of equals

01 Jun 09

TAFE CEOs need “moral authority” to face...

Pay TAFE boards properly: shareholder activist

Alternatives to vanilla degrees and classroom...

25 May 09

Decoding the PPP: how many places per person?

Growth strategies for the downturn

Building on adversity

No room for others

18 May 09

Youth compact to squeeze existing places

Trainers may never become teachers

11 May 09

Beyond the maze

TAFE ramps up its competitiveness

PPP rates to remain

04 May 09

Give VET funds straight to industry: new skills...

Vet briefs

Fund training properly: skills coalition

Unique strategies future-proof clients

27 Apr 09

PPP funding arrangements “perverse”

Finishing is the important factor

Learning through reflection

Keeping VET and higher education in perspective

Broadband raises questions about VET

Researchers should come to the party on market...

20 Apr 09

A managed VET market and a single tertiary...

Training going informal as recession bites:...

Decisive strategy-making succeeds

14 Apr 09

PPP should fund non-qualifications: AiG

Not all bad news

Jobs compact also about training: Rudd

Holmesglen receives nursing places

Hope and obstacles surround green skills

06 Apr 09

Vic TAFE ‘full service’ funding clarified

Multiple models will persist in post-Bradley VET:...

VET reviewers in the spotlight

30 Mar 09

Crossing over

Impoverished fare for poor cousin

Cultivating the minds of practitioners

23 Mar 09

Downtime blues: government widens its...

Government and Greens at odds over TAFE pay and...

Training numbers holding up despite economic gloom

Big note community colleges

16 Mar 09

Nine tenths of the way there

VET innovation a curate’s egg – but so is the...

The work-life divide

The big solutions to skill issues

Come together: Gillard makes marriage of...

09 Mar 09

PPP poker: Victoria raises infinity by 123,000

NSW signs up to PPP

Unexpected impacts of TAFE

Postgraduate qualifications come to VET

02 Mar 09

PPP goes private

Give us good generic skills

Minor tinkering will condemn VET

23 Feb 09

No-job apprentices: government dangles $155m in...

Time for a rethink on apprenticeships: TDA

Vet briefs

Is VET world class?

16 Feb 09

Teething problems in Tasmania’s new poly-system

Another ATC thrown a lifeline

Are VET diplomas the next big thing?

Standardised assessment for VET

09 Feb 09

VET doing fine before reform: Productivity...

The answer is skills but the questions keep...

Which way TAFE?

Packing a punch

VET study also brings its rewards

02 Feb 09

PPP: employers and Victoria the winners, as costs...

Small packages for big skills

Market design and contestable funding

Attention deficit disorder

We need to look beyond training packages

27 Jan 09

Bradley on VET

VET equals jobs: NCVER

Defining VET’s distinctive role

08 Dec 08

The myth of the evil employer

Ingredients for partnerships

COAG seals the deal

Change to survive and thrive

01 Dec 08

Replacing training packages

Getting personal

Corporatised Southbank sheds millions, now...

24 Nov 08

Grandparent role for providers

Doing the maths

VET research finally earns its gong

VET HR needs to catch up

NSW’s survival strategy: new friends

17 Nov 08

Authentic, sustainable leadership

OECD slams Australia's VET system

Evidence-free policy

10 Nov 08

Don't devolve TAFE: Lee

ACE inclusiveness

Aspirations replace frustrations

03 Nov 08

Creative, confident and coherent VU

Most early school leavers achieve positive...

VET's privatisation diversion

Core VET funding independent of COAG reform...

Where will the teachers come from?

27 Oct 08

High qualifications insurance in hard times

Victorian VET assumptions could fail elementary...

TAFEs ask Brumby to overturn advertising...

20 Oct 08

National training system disconnected

Meeting the needs?

Training our way out of trouble

Minds for the future

13 Oct 08

Quality concerns escalate

Closing the divide

Victoria announces international taskforce members

06 Oct 08

It’s all about needs, aspirations and pathways,...

VET governance congested: Skills Australia

Not all employers are the same

29 Sep 08

Living in competing knowledge systems

Industry passion for TAFE

No legislation, but jobs on offer regardless

Gathering Moss: ACPET replaces chair

ATCs kick on – and so do the politics

Guaranteeing training

The master apprentice

Topics

19 Jul 10

The price is right?

UK minister sets out radical plans for...

NZ to link uni funding with employability

Baby MBAs

Curtin appoints new physiotherapy head

Beattie links with UQ

Palmer to join the CSHE

La Trobe awarded chair in European studies

Smith appointed CEO Swinburne College

OUA announces new general manager

Rengel wins international recognition

Fong appointed to key healthcare position

Rathjen to head UTAS

05 Jul 10

Entrance Exam

Demand for NZ tertiary study predicted to fall

Japan’s research sluggish by comparison

Tiers – and tears –in higher education

Too much information?

Gatekeeper & guide:

Fulbright announces new scholarships

First La Trobe Rural Health School professor...

Clements to join Swinburne

Australian scientists named lead authors for IPCC...

WA ecologist to receive gold medal

Wasser appointed audit director

Vanclay goes to Groningen

McKeon appointed chair of CSIRO board

Dawkins to head Victoria University

28 Jun 10

Enterprise beats education, as Tories wield the...

21 Jun 10

Digital is dead: synaptic technologies rule

Picture this

Top brains only – NZ universities cut class...

American exceptionalism?

New appointments to Flinders

New appointments for ACU

Robson to chair WUN

UCL Adelaide appoints CEO

International role for Berndt

Smith inducted into AFL Hall of Fame

Dawkins to head National Quality Council

07 Jun 10

Marks & Shakespeare

Budget blues

Tyrell goes to Armenia

Field joins ACPET

JCU professor heads to Utrecht

TDA elects new deputy chairs

Karmel’s term extended at NCVER

USC appoints new VC

Territory tertiary education pioneers recognised

Raffles College appoints program director

Cosgrove appointed chancellor of ACU

CAUDIT appoints a new Chair

Offord appointed to Tokyo

24 May 10

Interactive & connected

Plugging in

Tutors on tap

US academic leaders support open-access bill

Going global

Capping and gushing is all the rage

UB education professor awarded in the US

UWA expert wins NSW literary prize

Macquarie sustainability director to lead...

Rice to lead NCVER research

Harding reappointed to AIMS

Grano to lead minerals and energy research

International recognition for Homel

Deakin appoints director of WIL

10 May 10

NZ needs to invest more in R&D

Greening the profession

New director for marine and Antarctic research...

Cory becomes president of AAS

Schwab Award goes to Australian

CMU appoints new Australian executive director

Go8 appoints national student equity convenor

New director for Newcastle environment institute

Wollongong announces SMART appointment

McDonald appointed chair in modern Irish studies

New president for AVETRA

First indigenous woman elected to UN forum

27 Apr 10

Come together

Universities web squared

On the stand

International branch campuses and the ‘new...

The moral of two movies

Den Hollander appointed VC at Deakin

Curtin appoints new head for Sarawak campus

Three women appointed to UNE executive

Nobel Prize-winner joins QUT

New audit director for AUQA

UWS appoints new deputy vice-chancellor

Commercialisation Australia CEO announced

CQU appoints new DVC (international)

UWA appoints new librarian

Grano to lead minerals and energy research

19 Apr 10

UK’s Golden Triangle conducts lion’s share of...

Reality politics hits US education sector

12 Apr 10

Australia leads the e-textbook pack

From race cam to talking books

Patching up the friendship

Scholarships

Corrections:

Celler to head UWS College of Health and Science

Parker signs for five more years at University of...

CDU appoints new research school head

UWS appoints new DVC

Thomas receives international leadership award

Sinnott appointed eResearch director

06 Apr 10

A majority of young UK women now attend uni

30 Mar 10

A sharing approach

Hilmer appointed to NSW innovation council

Weisbrot wins NHMRC award

Leder wins international maths education award

Marron appointed CIT CEO

Carroll appointed PVC at CDU

Professor Peter Taylor appointed as VLSCI Director

22 Mar 10

UK website refines informed choice

India’s doors now open to foreign universities

All NZ courses to fit a national qualification

Indians opt for Aotearoa

15 Mar 10

A small town in germany

CQ University appoints new DVC

Changes at the Australian Academy of the...

Connelly appointed PVC at RMIT

World-class plant scientist joins UWA

Wilcock appointed chair of VCA advisory board

USQ professor elected ACPHIS president

New mathematics professor at UB

Dodson and McAuliffe dual appointment to Harvard...

01 Mar 10

An eye to the future

noticeboard

22 Feb 10

NZ to weed out 'lazy' students and...

15 Feb 10

Nobel Prizes and liberal studies

International students and the law

International postgraduate applications on the...

Education, research big winners in US budget

08 Feb 10

Falling by degrees

Quebec jumps into breach with offers of...

01 Feb 10

Shape of things to come

Budding leaders into the breach

18 Jan 10

07 Dec 09

Sharing the data load

London is the world hub for creative industries....

Leap in researchers in developing countries

30 Nov 09

Standard attraction: Canada looks to Australia

23 Nov 09

16 Nov 09

09 Nov 09

Last out, turn off the lights

On the not so distant horizon

UK report rejects higher education vouchers

02 Nov 09

Utrecht’s international treaty

26 Oct 09

Pathways, policy & ICTs

19 Oct 09

Advancement vs commercialisation

12 Oct 09

06 Oct 09

28 Sep 09

Research ethics:teaching undergraduates where the...

noticeboard

14 Sep 09

Heads in the clouds

Research, invention and the ownership of IP

Harvard makes a DASH for open access

UK unis told to increase impact and bring in the...

Publish, plagiarise or perish

US international postgraduate numbers fall as...

07 Sep 09

Apollo takes giant step into UK market

31 Aug 09

24 Aug 09

17 Aug 09

Web summer school shines

New approaches to teaching and learning

10 Aug 09

03 Aug 09

Lessons from the past

Bogus colleges cause UK immigration headaches

27 Jul 09

Shakespeare Hong Kong style

21 Jul 09

Sharing & learning

Research funding in America

Private VET corners the international market –...

14 Jul 09

Don’t forget China during Indian dilemma

07 Jul 09

Promotional fairs postponed in India

29 Jun 09

22 Jun 09

Making the connection

Letter from Europe: Governing gentlemen’s clubs

Women outnumber and out-perform men

15 Jun 09

Teaching and research split in perfect system

09 Jun 09

I love TNE

Top 20 European institutions in clinical medicine...

01 Jun 09

25 May 09

Peer review teeters as experts struggle with...

11 May 09

Letter from Europe - Students immobilised

Letters to the editor

04 May 09

Failing universities should be allowed to sink

27 Apr 09

It’s bigger than just libraries

20 Apr 09

14 Apr 09

The three circles of English

noticeboard

06 Apr 09

The fine art of managing relationships

30 Mar 09

Increasing the yield

Complying with Bologna

NZ merger would transform minnow

23 Mar 09

16 Mar 09

09 Mar 09

02 Mar 09

IT’s dreadful environmental toll

Letter from Hong Kong - Language of community

Departure lounge - A private discussion

23 Feb 09

Training packages up for review

16 Feb 09

Letter from Europe - Chill winds in research...

International news briefs

09 Feb 09

International news briefs

02 Feb 09

The future of research and learning

International VET study to break new ground

27 Jan 09

NZ research quantity, not quality rewarded

Briefs - International

Higher education a major beneficiary of US...

Obituary Dr Christy Fellows

08 Dec 08

New head of ACU National business school

Curtin bolsters Muresk team with new appointment

Ford appointed to national council

Navitas MD named entrepreneur of year

01 Dec 08

Mining rich lodes

UQ academic named Young Water Professional

Accolade for UniSA’s collaborative approach

Yücel honoured by learned academy

Linda Brown appointed DVC (TAFE)

Bean appointed to UK’s Open University

NT academic awarded for vocational teaching

King appointed to PhillipsKPA

24 Nov 08

Byrne named new Monash VC

Daley inaugural CEO of Grattan Institute

New chair of intellectual disability

CDU imports financial specialist

New head and school for CSU Ontario

Fulbright Commission appoints new ED

Whiteford appointed to Macquarie

UNSW appoints ED finance

Høj honoured in Denmark

Coaldrake next chair of UA

Supervision changes with the times

17 Nov 08

Deakin appoints of director teaching and learning...

UNE appoints new chief fundraiser

Curtin professor inducted into Mining Hall of Fame

Fitzgerald joins ACU National

Torbay appointed UNE chancellor-elect

Biochemist the new UTS dean of science

10 Nov 08

Cox named engineer of the year

Kaplan appointed dean at QUT

UWA academic wins non-fiction prize

Flinders makes two senior appointments

Volatile times

03 Nov 08

Astrophysicist honoured for excellence

Curtin appoints director for energy research...

New CEO for UniSA’s commercialisation arm

Del Mar awarded Rose-Hunt Medal

Two senior appointments for JCU

27 Oct 08

Woodland receives 2008 distinguished fellow award

VTEC director for Curtin in Kalgoorlie

Humanities honour goes to UNSW media researcher

Flinders appoints deputy vice-chancellor...

Tzannes appointed UNSW dean

Beyond the doom and gloom

20 Oct 08

Doctoral education put through the policy wringer

The art of writing: why PhDs need help

What’s up, doc?

Bootcamp for humanists

13 Oct 08

Achieving cohesion between yin and yang

06 Oct 08

Cohesion between yin and yang

29 Sep 08

Reviewing IT in higher education

01 Sep 08

All in the picture

11 Aug 08

Letter from Japan

21 Jul 08

Belonging to the magic quadrant

14 Jul 08

Credit where credit's due

30 Jun 08

New age dawns

Ins and outs of money laundering laws

02 Jun 08

Wellness & retention

26 May 08

Rosy picture for international enrolments

05 May 08

Searching & reaching

28 Apr 08

America re-emerging

UWA and intellectual property

21 Apr 08

ATN leaps ahead with employability skills

Postgraduate report card

The Pentagon, the university and the video game

Counting the measures

14 Apr 08

China's higher transformation

17 Mar 08

Opening up to open source

How do you get tenure?

10 Mar 08

Transnational threat to higher education’s...

25 Feb 08

A lost paradise

04 Feb 08

Digging deep

Negotiating a research deal

28 Jan 08

International students and the English language:...

NZ-Aust research impact compared

21 Jan 08

The unassuming laureate

14 Jan 08

The lucky professor

07 Jan 08

Face the inconvenient truth, UK unis told

27 Nov 00

Risky business

Spending to save

Faculty Focus

19 Jul 10

A modern morality play

The artist as academic

Building a sense of belonging

05 Jul 10

Making it so

Interweaving technology and business

ICT gets image conscious

21 Jun 10

Alliance to speak with one voice

Among the best, but that’s not saying much

Doing it for themselves

07 Jun 10

Can get some satisfaction

Why is it still an issue?

24 May 10

Counting the cost in science

The rebirthing of a science advocacy

10 May 10

Different models for different contexts

Bonfire of the humanities? Not by a long shot

27 Apr 10

Do-it-yourself prototyping

Engineering enrolments stay strong, but shortages...

12 Apr 10

Two-way communication to deliver better...

When a nursing degree isn’t enough

30 Mar 10

Soft skills and hard numbers

The price of everything and the value of nothing

Can we at least agree on the question?

Two perspectives on a long and bitter dispute

15 Mar 10

Young scientists bemoan post-doc treadmill

It’s not you, it’s me: A lack of chemistry...

15 Feb 10

Moulding a new urban architecture

Bridge over troubled waters

01 Feb 10

Teaching clinicians to teach

Curriculum with bite

18 Jan 10

Puppets of the business world

Feedback and forward

It all adds up

07 Dec 09

Teaching Fidel about collaboration

23 Nov 09

Humanities lose out on research funding

Vanity is killing social sciences and the...

Residency program could attract more men into...

09 Nov 09

Engineering a better balance

Programmed to succeed

26 Oct 09

Some Mayo with that

Three steps forward, one step back

Nursing numbers up, but only just

Opening eyes and minds

Practical tips for practical students

12 Oct 09

The changing face of the TAFE library

28 Sep 09

Average appeal

Attachment leads to success

The business of specialisation

The lighter side of the dismal science

14 Sep 09

Pure gold: journey to the Olympics

Internationalisation of Australian science

Science illiteracy baffles the public

31 Aug 09

The future of the humanities

Learning at the chalkface

Getting a taste for Sartre and Seneca

17 Aug 09