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No resumption of Commercial Ready, says Carr The government won’t reinstate the Commercial Ready early stage technology development fund, innovation minister Kim Carr told the online publicationAustralian Life Scientist. “Many organisations have made representations to me about the program and ...

US universities consider ‘tuning’ their degrees Minnesota, Indiana and Utah have each received $US150,000 to examine a new way to evaluate college degrees that would focus more on skills learned than classes taken. The program, ‘Tuning USA’, is an initiative ...

Over a quarter of Australian companies plan to reduce their spending on staff training as the recession erodes their bottom lines, a recent survey by the Australian Industry Group has revealed. And the peak industry group has found that businesses ...

VET graduate outcomes at the click of a button Information on employment outcomes for VET graduates can now be accessed in an interactive online resource. SOS Online, developed by the NCVER, can assist career counsellors and parents in helping young people ...

What are the lessons for providers from the controversial government tender for employment services? The federal government faced a public relations backlash following the recent announcement that respected church-based organisations such as the Wesley Mission had lost their contracts to ...

It would be naive to think that challenging the new equity policy environment, and jockeying for position within it, are just political moves. They are also about what equity is and how it can be addressed, says Trevor Gale. In ...

NUS calls for yearly handouts The National Union of Students has rebuffed claims students are double-dipping by qualifying for handouts under both of the federal government’s stimulus packages. NUS president David Barrow said many of the “impoverished students on Centrelink” ...

Concentration on the early years of development, coordination of programs across higher education and forceful messages about young indigenous people’s responsibility to their elders, families and communities – these are among the strategies recommended by indigenous education leaders to help ...