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Most of the challenges Australia faces have their roots in poor educational experiences. We need to invest in a new approach that recognises the multitude of skills children need to thrive in a modern society, writes Elaine Henry. There is ...

COAG has vowed to lift its game, with improvements in VET performance between 2009 and 2020. But new data reveals the magnitude of the improvements required. VET will have to improve its performance markedly to meet the COAG targets, the ...

Is it possible to rank VET teachers’ skills and knowledge, asks John Mitchell. There are moves afoot to define teaching standards for all school teachers in Australia, so the question follows as to whether standards can be set for VET ...

A private provider with a recent troubled past has much work to do to get to square one. When a quality audit begins with the phrase so and so is “at a challenging phase of development”, it’s code for “help!” ...

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A tougher approvals regime that has doubled the refusal rate for student visa applications. The proportion of student visa applications rejected by the immigration department has risen steeply, as tougher processing measures introduced last year by the immigration department begin ...

It’s taken six months to pass a Bill that seemed to have the Opposition’s blessings, and it’s going to take another three before the details become clear. Some 1300 colleges, universities and schools will have to reregister under tougher criteria ...

Australia needs to break the link with migration if it wants to fix international education, some claim. But will that really improve things? John Ross reports. Welcome desks at international airports, safety awareness forums, surveys of overseas students’ feelings. As ...

Toby Miller finds he knows a little more – and a little less – about US history than he suspected. I recently collected my third nationality: in the last week of 2009, I became a US citizen. To do so, ...

There has been much soul searching about the nature of Australia’s international education sector. Now the time has come to look forward, writes Stephen Connelly. Last year will be remembered as the year in which international education in Australia finally ...