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RMIT has fallen foul of workplace laws for failing to pay an on-call allowance to a security officer. RMIT University has been fined $13,000 for breaking workplace laws and ordered to pay a former employee over $91,000 in back pay ...

Workforce data for VET lags way behind what’s available on higher education, with studies offering vastly different estimates of how many people work in the sector. While TAFEs provide 70 per cent or more of VET in Australia, a new ...

Will a tertiary sector impact positively on VET practitioners, asks John Mitchell. There is a light flickering on the horizon that offers a way out of some tangled debates in VET. That light is the emerging tertiary system in Australia, ...

The New Zealand government is taking aim at lazy students and courses with high dropout or failure rates in looming reforms in tertiary education. Prime Minister John Key said last week there were "increasingly urgent problems" in tertiary education, pointing ...

Winners from the proposed Youth Allowance changes would outnumber the losers in every electorate – especially poor and regional ones – while rich urban electorates would see a scholarship bonanza. The people who benefit from the government’s proposed income support ...

English language schools and universities can gain from last week’s shake-up of the skilled migration program – so long as they reset the bar. VET will be the loser from the changes to general skilled migration announced last week. But ...

A recent triumph for the Chinese University has Simon Haines wondering about genius. The Chinese University and the Hong Kong government have been celebrating the achievement of the former CUHK vice-chancellor, Charles Kao, the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize ...

Regulatory and quality assurance arrangements for higher education and VET should be as consistent as possible. But the opposite is happening, writes Leesa Wheelahan. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has decided to establish separate VET and higher education regulators, ...

How will mission-based compacts help inspire radical reform in teaching and learning, asks Kerri-Lee Krause. Mission-based compacts represent one of three pillars in the federal government’s ambitious higher education reform agenda. A second is that of standards, to be monitored ...

Online intro Skills Australia is considering a two-stream approach to funding VET, with companies funded directly to undertake training – and in some cases, to provide it. A proportion of national VET funding could be set aside to meet the ...