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Queensland’s TAFE downsizing is because of reduced demand in the gun resource state, says the education department boss. Queensland plans to cut 200 TAFE teaching and administrative positions across the state in areas it says have been hit by reduced ...

Is campus-based education doomed? Looks that way, and that’s why online universities need to be part of the demand-driven system, says <<<Stuart Hamilton>>>. I hope the traditional university campus experience will continue to be available for those who want it ...

Some dismiss dual-sectors as nothing more than institutionalised frameworks for sectoral brawling. But they’re generating plenty of interest, says <<<Leesa Wheelahan>>>. Dual-sectors are going to get their moment in the sun because of changes to tertiary education. However, this presents ...

Victorian-style VET for Australia? Not necessarily in all respects, say the experts. Are the federal budget VET reforms an attempt to impose the Victorian VET model on the rest of the country? And if so, is that a good thing? ...

Which training providers are not afraid of the MySkills website, asks John Mitchell. Following the media profile given to the MySchool website, there was no sense of public surprise when the government announced in the budget that it would allocate ...

Academics have been left off the list of occupations that qualify for the general skilled migration program. The new occupational target list for general skilled migration might guarantee universities a source of income, with accountants a surprise inclusion. But it’s ...

It’s the small private VET providers who’ve attracted most concern around quality, but they’ve been sidelined from the government’s new quality initiatives. The VET community is universally delighted with the federal government’s budget pledge to directly fund VET providers for ...

The rise and rise of higher education in Asia, particularly in China, has given rise to speculation that a common higher education zone could eventually become a reality. Not for quite some time, says Simon Marginson. There is without doubt ...

A Victorian TAFE chief is experiencing “audit fatigue”, with an average of three external audits a fortnight – some of which produce contradictory recommendations. Excessive and sometimes conflicting audits are making life hard for TAFEs trying to straddle the VET-higher ...