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Certs and levels aren’t the same thing, John Dawkins stresses. The chair of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Council and the National Quality Council, John Dawkins, has addressed concerns that revisions to the AQF will lead to trade certificates being ...

Victoria’s latest skills reforms have hit an upper house hurdle. Victoria’s upper house has demanded that the state government tone down the contentious VET eligibility criterion which denies government-supported places to adult students unless they pursue progressively higher qualifications. The ...

Higher ed got a thorough health check in Labor’s first term. Now it’s VET’s turn, experts argue. VET faces a rocky road in the shifting political landscape, because – unlike higher education – it lacks a systematic policy with broad ...

Union opposition to TAFE-delivered nursing degrees appears likely to soften. But TAFE higher education degrees still face a major hurdle in 2012. The union movement could soon change its opposition to TAFE provision of nursing degrees, according to the new ...

Victoria’s VET sector is “one of the state’s great assets”, according to former PM Paul Keating, but state policies are holding it back. Modern careers have moved on from the “set and forget” culture of the early baby boomers, and ...

The wide brown parts of our land are about to see a bit more of the green stuff, with the regions getting first pick of new education spending. Half a billion dollars in dedicated infrastructure funding is just the start ...

Most Australian unis lost ground in last week’s QS rankings – and there’s worse to come this week. Sliding global rankings could be the latest wave of the ‘perfect storm’ threatening to engulf international education in Australia, experts warn. All ...

America is no longer “comatose” when it comes to international students, says a New York university system chief. Concerns that the US is upping the ante in the global competition for international students seem well founded, if plans underway at ...

A failure in international education would be an “an abject failure of policy”, according to former PM Paul Keating. The downturn in international education is largely the result of Australians’ attitude to immigration and the ‘boat people’ debate, former Prime ...

International student support can’t be ticked off in a one-off orientation session, says Bruce Baird. Safety, health and welfare issues aren’t the main concern for most foreign students, according to the operators of the first national after-hours personal support hotline ...