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Are TAFE directors capable of running their institutes as businesses, asks John Mitchell. The working lives of Victorian TAFE directors changed dramatically with the launch of contestable funding on 1 July. But are TAFE directors in other states preparing for ...

The government must consider raising student contributions if it is to meet its key higher education targets and agenda. An increase in student contributions must be considered if universities are to meet the federal government’s participation targets and quality agenda ...

Research minister Kim Carr is says with some notable exceptions, interim compact negotiations are bordering on the bland. Research minister Kim Carr has hit out at universities, saying he wants mission-based compacts to promote radical reform, structural change and active ...

The government plans to push its income support Bill in the Senate early this week, in a last-ditch effort to get the reforms through Parliament this year. The federal government was last week ramping up preparations to push through its ...

VET funding for young Victorians will be fully contestable next year, as the state brings forward its skills reforms to meet its Youth Compact commitments. Victoria will introduce fully contestable VET funding for young students from the beginning of next ...

Does Austrade have what it takes to promote Australia as a world-class research and education destination, asks Dennis Murray. The government’s decision to hand over generic marketing and promotion of Australia’s international education to Austrade is hardly surprising. The cheap ...

Business as usual for NZ provider A NZ-based company linked to the Global Campus Management (GCM) group says its local colleges are not threatened by the collapse of GCM’s Australian operations. GCM ran four colleges across 13 campuses in Sydney ...

UK to slash VET spending A leaked document shows the British government plans to cut $A630 million from its 2010-11 training budget, reports The Observer. The newspaper has obtained a confidential memo detailing preferred options for slashing the $7 billion skills ...

Non-completion in a recession can be disastrous for the apprentice, but the main issue for governments should be falling commencements. Australia may have dodged the recession bullet that has felled most other advanced economies. Apprentice and trainee numbers too seem ...

Should individual institutions be funded to deliver social inclusion programs, asks John Mitchell. One of the clear messages from the Bradley review of higher education was the need for tertiary education providers to address equity issues, such as the exclusion ...