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TAFEs will receive around 10 per cent extra funding to meet their costs as “full service providers” under Victoria’s revamped VET system, the acting deputy secretary of Skills Victoria revealed last week. Philip Clarke told the Skilling for the Future ...

The Bologna process has been driven by a whole series of hidden agendas, and led to opposition from unlikely sources. Yet it’s succeeded in harmonising higher education in one of the most diverse and conflict-ridden regions on earth. Emeritus Professor ...

Loneliness and bad jobs a real pain in the back If you are unhappy with your job or live alone, chances are you will take longer to recover from lower back pain than your less stressed and better supported counterparts, ...

Economic downturn affects US study abroad plans Applications to many overseas study programs this northern summer and autumn are down, and the economy may be to blame, according to a survey of study-abroad directors in US universities. More than half ...

VET will buddy up with higher education (HE) to help make Denise Bradley’s integrated tertiary sector a reality, predicts Philip Bullock, chair of Skills Australia. But VET’s main players may struggle to integrate with each other, Bullock told a Sydney ...

PPP jobseeker completions reach 33,000 Almost 92,000 job seekers have enrolled in the $2 billion Productivity Places Program in just under 12 months, with 73,500 jobseekers commencing training and almost 33,000 completing training. NSW completions totalled 12,000, Victoria 10,700, Queensland ...

Does the National Quality Council have the time and appetite for a thorough review of VET issues, asks John Mitchell. The VET sector is undertaking a major policy review, and anecdotal indications are that it won’t resolve all the issues. ...

Australia punches well above its weight in sport by investing in sports we choose to excel at. Higher education should take a leaf from the sporting book. We cannot afford a system in which all universities are effectively comprehensive, says ...