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TAFE NSW will seek allies to help it survive national reforms to the training market, according to an in-house strategy document. The discussion paper, prepared last month for meetings with regional trainers and union representatives, says Australia’s largest training provider ...

A great deal is being asked of Australia’s ageing and highly casualised VET workforce. Not only are they expected to deliver a substantial part of the Rudd Government’s “education revolution” – not least the massive Productivity Places Program – but ...

Australian VET research may no longer be in its infancy, but it has a way to go before it is recognised as having reached adulthood – at least within its own national boundaries. Roger Harris, professor of adult and vocational ...

Training providers who service the needs of enterprises might take a back seat if a model being driven in the Clare Valley gains imitators. The model involves the training provider, River Murray Training (RMT), doing everything it can to hand ...

If you think they’re out to get you, you’re not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought. Surveys of several thousand people in Britain, the US and elsewhere have found ...

Vertical drinking is a term that’s come into use recently in Britain and Australia to refer to the practice of drinking standing up in a crowded public bar. It’s usually associated with binge drinking, as it inevitably involves consumption of ...

Professor Ed Byrne was last week named as incoming vice-chancellor of Monash University, replacing Professor Richard Larkins next July. Since early last year Byrne has been vice provost (health) at University College London. Before that Byrne was dean of medicine, ...

Dr John Daley has been appointed to the position of CEO of the Grattan Institute, a new national public policy institute being established in Melbourne, Daley’s experience spans policy, academic, government and corporate roles at the University of Melbourne, the ...

Dr Julian Trollor will take up the chair of intellectual disability and mental health at UNSW in February 2009 as associate professor. The NSW government provided $2.1 million over five years to create the position, which will work closely with ...

Charles Darwin University’s new executive director of finance and asset services Rob Brelsford-Smith comes to Darwin from New Zealand’s Auckland University of Technology (AUT), where he worked for the past nine years. Brelsford-Smith’s MBA focused on incorporating indigenous people into ...