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Apprentices and trainees in the trades are taken significantly less time to complete their training than a decade ago. But attrition rates are still running at nearly 50 per cent and haven’t budged despite massive federal government investments. So it’s ...

The federal government’s latest initiative to ensure that migrant tradespeople meet Australian occupational standards is an implicit admission that the national training system doesn’t work as it’s supposed to, according to two Griffith University VET experts. In the May budget, ...

Carrington heads to QUTealth public service and was a senior researcher within the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library. Happell to CQU Professor Brenda Happell has been appointed director of the Institute for Health and Social Science Research at CQU. Happell will succeed ...

India hopes to join the superpower elite, but there is not enough international quality in its higher education system. Phil Baty reports on how it aims to raise standards by overhauling regulation and inviting in foreign providers.ted to become one ...

<<<To throw the doors open to foreign providers is not necessarily a panacea for Indian higher education, warns Philip Altbach.>>> India’s new Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, has promised to open its higher education sector to foreign universities ...

It's time for a comprehensive national strategy on international education, says Stephen Connelly. My first job as an English language teacher was in 1988 at a college in downtown Melbourne. Fresh out of a dip ed, I took the beginners’ ...

Examining community cohesion in Arabic communities in Europe, Christina Slade gets some insights into research impact. Scholars around the world have been exercised with the problem of how to measure the impact of research. The question is particularly stark for ...

Like chocolate for waterel, from past to present, and from the battlefields to the archives, where he discovers a dark episode in Australian history that sits starkly at odds with the Anzac myth and legend. For Daley, the Beersheba of ...

1956 --- Puzzle corner A television commentator during Wimbledon said that in men’s singles on grass, the server has such an advantage that if he’s down 15-40, he still has a 50 per cent chance of winning the game. Assuming ...