The focus on green skills may be politically popular, but maybe is it really addressing the changing needs of the workforce? By Tom Karmel I’m not sure whether the metaphor in the headline is appropriate given how green the countryside ...
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Deakin appoints director of WIL
Deakin University has appointed Associate Professor Dineli Mather as its first university-level director of work integrated learning (WIL). Mather has nearly 15 years of experience managing industry-based learning and internship programs within universities, including establishing a very successful industry placement ...
More »International recognition for Homel
Director of the Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research Professor Ross Homel is the recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s 2010 Thorsten Sellin and Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award in recognition of his “scholarship that considers problems of ...
More »New migration list doesn’t resolve uncertainty
The new migration skills list has finally been released – but the jury’s still out on what it means. The new skilled occupation list (SOL), which outlines the occupations to be considered under the general skilled migration (GSM) program from ...
More »Can Asia create its own Bologna?
Could the Asia-Pacific create its own EU-style higher education zone? The rise of higher education in most of the Asia Pacific is unprecedented, but it is unlikely to lead to a unified, regional higher education system - the equivalent of ...
More »Trades back in the frame, as GFC gives way to giddy-up
Trades are back on skilled immigration’s hit-list – and it could be good news for traditional trainers. Trades make up over a quarter of the immigration department’s new list for skilled migration, signalling a possible resurgence of enrolments in the ...
More »The PPP endgame: who can kill it first
The opposition will kill the PPP as part of its $47 billion budget saving strategy. But there’s a problem: the government’s already killed it. A Coalition government would save taxpayers more than $1 billion by canning the Productivity Places Program ...
More »Uni bean counters happy, as international bean counters get the nod
It might be goodbye to cooks and hairdressers. But it’s a big hello, once again, to accountants. Accountants are the surprise inclusion in the new hit list for general skilled migration (GSM), with all three occupational categories of the profession ...
More »Canberra’s new experiment: the omniversity
UC’s Stephen Parker is putting his money where his mouth is, with work under way to establish Canberra’s own university system. The University of Canberra is going it alone in establishing its own university system – tentatively known as an ...
More »Trouble at mill
Some PhD and supervisor relationships are not perfect. And there might be incidences of bullying. But let’s get some perspective, writes Joseph Gora. Do I detect the whiff of hysteria in relation to the issue of bullying in higher education? ...
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