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The velocity with which the government is heading toward a fully contestable market for VET is breathtaking. Yet Robin Ryan reveals historically there is no evidence to justify the direction.   The Rudd Government has been subject to considerable criticism ...

An OECD team that visited Australia earlier this year to benchmark Australian VET against international standards has reported – and is highly critical of many aspects of this country’s VET system. While the review team says “Australia has a very ...

Is there a future for the brilliant, solo, transformative - and mostly male - VET leader?   As the VET sector moves towards an uncertain future, there will be an increased need for effective leadership. But what will be the ...

Hormonal changes caused by menopause soften the biologically driven rivalry between women. A study published last week reveals that menopause alters the way women judge attractiveness in younger members of the same sex, resulting in a greater preference for feminine ...

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger: servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Halwai is taken out of school by his family and put to work in ...

Despite appearances astroturfing is not a US space program for making Mars more habitable. Instead it takes off from AstroTurf(TM), the artificial grass which came to fame in the 1960s at the Houston Astrodome, when natural grass refused to grow ...

Professor Bruce Milthorpe has commenced as dean of science at UTS. A former head of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at UNSW and deputy president (academic) of UNSW Asia, Milthorpe has been involved in biomaterials development and assessment for ...

Richard Torbay, speaker of the NSW Lower House, has been appointed chancellor-elect, taking effect at the end of current chancellor John Cassidy’s term on 11 December. Awarded an honorary doctorate in 2007, Torbay has had a long association with UNE. ...

Historian, social and political commentator, writer and broadcaster Professor Ross Fitzgerald has joined ACU National as a part-time professorial fellow within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Fitzgerald’s books, both fiction and non-fiction, span subjects as diverse as ageing, the ...

Curtin University of Technology Emeritus Professor John de Laeter has been induced into the Australian Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame. De Laeter’s induction recognises his contribution to geochronological research (the science of dating and determining the time sequence of ...