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First-year students are better informed and better prepared for university life. The problem is, they are just not engaging in it. Picture this. It’s 2009. There are two first year students. They are highly organised, extremely busy, happy with their ...

It’s not that unusual for a 70 year old to go to university. In 2008 there were around 5750 higher education students aged 60 or over, including about 2000 undergraduates, 1250 masters and 1400 PhDs. But 70 year-old Anne Hailes, ...

They might be an untapped seam of learners and earners for a buoyant economy. But the proportion of disengaged young people is back at 90s levels, thanks to the GFC. The global financial crisis undid a decade of painstaking progress ...

Well-intentioned programs driven by firmly articulated policy can sometimes overlook the human side of what is trying to to be achieved, writes Ros Brennan Kemmis. The employment services program Job Services Australia was introduced on 1 July last yearwith high ...

Victoria’s tertiary education plan could form a bridge between post-Bradley federal tertiary education policy and the strategic plans of Victorian universities and TAFE institutes, writes Catherine Burnheim. The newly released Victorian tertiary education plan offers constructive proposals to develop a ...

Is the VET system capable of engaging small business people, asks John Mitchell. A large number of people in the Australian workforce who have been let down by the VET system are small business people. This was glaringly obvious to ...

VET’s future is best positioned in a federally funded tertiary system, according to former DEEWR deputy secretary and outgoing TVET Australia managing director Jim Davidson. Davidson said VET was facing increasing pressures to cooperate both above and below, as schools ...

Computational scientist Professor Peter R Taylor has been appointed as the director of the University of Melbourne-led Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative. Taylor is currently the chief scientist at the Centre for Scientific Computing of the University of Warwick in ...

A specialist in quality assurance in the higher education sector is about to join Charles Darwin University. Associate Professor Martin Carroll, who has spent almost four years as consulting director with the Oman Accreditation Council, will take up the position ...

Emeritus Professor Gilah Leder has been honoured by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction for her outstanding achievements in mathematics education, research and development. The former director of La Trobe University’s Institute of Advanced Study, director of graduate studies and ...