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The value of a degree over a lifetime might be less than the much-touted $1 million. It’s a commonly held fact in higher education circles that those who complete a bachelor degree will earn $1 million more than their counterparts ...

In an otherwise austere budget, President Barack Obama last week confirmed his commitment to education and research. With the US economy still technically a basket case, US President Barack Obama’s $US3.8 trillion ($4.3 trillion) 2011 budget lays the foundation for ...

Peer review of teaching may be what the government needs if it wants to measure quality of teaching. Peer review of teaching has emerged as a possible measure for teaching quality in the government’s indicator framework for higher education performance ...

Vocational training may not provide much of a springboard for meeting the new higher education targets, with unmet demand rising in government-supported VET. Unmet demand in the government-funded VET sector rose by over 10 per cent in 2008, as funding ...

With its focus restricted to funding, the federal government, via its discussion paper on regional loadings, has missed a timely opportunity to thoroughly examine higher education in rural and regional areas, according to experts in the field. Furthermore, the discussion ...

Targets can be easy if you’ve got momentum on your side. But they can be much harder if you’re fighting the headwinds created by other targets, writes <<<John Ross>>>. Some of the new tertiary education targets are starting to look ...

Could the government’s new higher education equity policy end up being unfair? It’s a risk we face, writes Andrew Norton. Under draft policies, for the first time a low-SES classification would deliver significant benefits to individuals. Partnerships funding would oblige ...

CSU's distance education credentials come under fire in its recent AUQA report. Australia's largest provider of distance and flexible learning has been told to pull up its socks in the delivery of online learning, particularly in terms of staff commitment ...

Japan is pushing its internationisation agenda by offering courses in English. Two years ago the Japanese government launched ‘Global 30’, a project aimed, inter alia, at increasing the number of international students studying in Japan to 300,000 by 2020. Last ...

Western Australia is backing away from the TAFE brand, with the name discarded by four of its ten institutes. Western Australia is progressively removing the name TAFE from its public training system, as the state’s institutes respond to their training ...