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Ros Brennan Kemmis on raising the bar on VET teacher qualifications. The quality and success of students are intrinsically tied to the skills and abilities of the teachers and trainers. The prodigious body of research literature on the correlation between ...

Only a handful of researchers in only five institutions contribute the lion’s share of world-class research in the UK. Twenty-four years after the UK introduced its program of targeting research funding at excellence whereever it exists, a very small number ...

Australia’s economy is going gang-busters again, but some sectors are continuing to slide – with implications for training. Australia is poised to rediscover the boom conditions of early 2008, but some sections of the economy – notably manufacturing – have ...

Should outstanding providers of international education pay for the poor practices of others, asks John Mitchell. There is an unfortunate downside to the avalanche of publicity over the past six months about a minority of private providers offering international students ...

The bold American graduation initiative is the latest victim of health care congressional backroom deals, writes Martin Riordan. The Obama administration’s passage through Congress of the historic health care insurance reforms has masked unexpected big cuts to the 2010 budget ...

The quality and success of students are intrinsically tied to the skills and abilities of the teachers and trainers. The prodigious body of research literature on the correlation between teacher qualifications and quality outcomes for students seems to have been ...

Group training has to think big, according to John Buchanan. The group training model should be extended beyond trade apprenticeships to professions such as engineering and medicine, an industrial relations expert told last week’s Group Training national conference in Adelaide. ...

Australia’s medical deans say enough is enough, and call for a temporary halt to new medical schools and the expansion of existing ones. In just a decade, Australia has added nine new medical schools, with the number of domestic medical ...

State governments, particularly Victoria and NSW, have failed to act adequately to protect international students in the wake of violent attacks that received worldwide attention, according to a leading researcher.t, especially at night; targeted policing of hot spots where violence ...