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RPL is likely to play a bigger role in hitting training targets, as a backlog of older workers realise they can convert decades of experience into recognised qualifications. Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is set for an explosion over the ...

A positive discrimination approach could inject some much-needed diversity into homogenous international student groups. Universities should consider introducing scholarships for overseas students from targeted countries, in order to diversify international enrolments, a Sydney conference heard last month. Andrew Holloway, vice ...

Facing the challenges in the student accommodation sector. Government should expand infrastructure and accommodation funding through a new General Capital Fund to complement the competitive EIF system, folding in other smaller funding streams, rewarding co-funding and supporting the attainment of ...

“Going viral” is the last thing most travelers want. But organisers of a safety campaign, targeted at foreign students, are hoping for exactly that. In May last year, as disquiet was brewing over attacks on foreign students in Melbourne, a ...

A refusal often offends. But the immigration department’s taking strides to make sure it’s as inoffensive as possible. Visa and citizenship applicants might be unhappy with how long the process takes and the result they get at the end of ...

TAFE struggles for a place in policy wish-lists. And intellectual snobbery – even among the true believers – could be part of the problem. Labor MPs were crazy about credit unions in decades gone by, former Prime Minister Paul Keating ...

With numbers this tight in Canberra, VET doesn’t need to be sexy to be heard, says John Ross. Political parties have always been on pretty safe ground when they ignored vocational training. Journalists – mostly university-educated these days – tend ...

Do great practitioners in VET receive sufficient national recognition, asks John Mitchell. Which individuals and teams in VET are making an outstanding contribution to student learning? And is it worth recognising them nationally? Both these questions will draw a negative ...

Professor Richard James has been appointed pro vice-chancellor (participation and engagement) at the University of Melbourne. Active in higher education research across a range of policy areas, his work on access and equity has been particularly influential. Recently he has ...

Steve McDonald has been named the new CEO of SkillsDMC. He has a vast knowledge of the VET System and is the current general manager of an Australian Apprenticeship Centre, and has held the past positions of director, general manager, ...