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Who will create a tertiary system - policy makers or providers, asks John Mitchell. One advantage of the new market based environment emerging in vocational education is that progressive providers are spotting and grasping opportunities. For instance, progressive VET providers ...

Recent research presents a confronting picture of the impact of the economic downturn on the transition of young people from school to work and further study and training, writes Lucas Walsh. Between 2008 and 2009, the proportion of teenagers not ...

ACT education minister Andrew Barr has said he will consider splitting the territory’s senior colleges into academic and vocational streams - similar to that in Tasmania. News of the plan came as a bitter dispute in Tasmania threatens to disrupt ...

There are a few truths that are universally understood in the world of philanthropy and last week Professor Eric Thomas shared his version of them with an intimate gathering of 40 invitees at a breakfast at RMIT. “The first rule ...

Further industrial action is anticipated during November as the National Tertiary Education Union tries to capitalise on a number of agreements that have been reached in recent weeks. Last week, La Trobe University announced it had reached agreement including a ...

By failing to fully fund the Bradley tertiary education reforms, the government is missing out on an investment return of 15 to 20 per cent. The tertiary education reforms recommended by the Bradley review offer an “unmissable bargain” which Australia ...

The federal government should scrap its contentious proposal to tighten workforce participation criteria for Youth Allowance eligibility, according to the Senate committee which reviewed the government’s Student Income Support Reform Bill. Instead, the committee says, the government should monitor students ...