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Tasmania Tomorrow has changed things in the island state, despite its early demise. The Tasmanian polytechnic is “firmly embedded” despite major structural changes announced last month, according to board member Professor Judith Walker. Walker, deputy dean of the University of ...

There is an art to using student engagement surveys – focus on the least engaged, writes Megan Robinson. When assessing the quality of education at their institution, universities should not look solely at average results from student engagement surveys but ...

Are asylum concerns “killing” international education? A reported “blunder” by immigration minister Chris Evans last week has fuelled concerns that international education may be getting caught up in the asylum-seeker debate. Evans found himself the subject of media headlines when ...

With the coffers looking fuller than expected, the government should finish the Bradley jigsaw, according to the peak universities body. Universities can claim partial credit for the better than expected economic outlook – and should be rewarded accordingly – according ...

An anomaly in the figures DEEWR has used to allocate HEPPP funding has raised questions over the accuracy of the data underpinning its interim SES measure. The figures say that Batchelor Institute had around 500 undergraduates receiving selected Centrelink benefits ...

Where do polytechnics fit within the emerging tertiary sector, asks John Mitchell. TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) recently released a discussion paper, ‘Blueprint for Australia’s tertiary education’, advocating a role for TAFE institutes in offering degrees supported by Commonwealth funding. One ...

Quality of education will be put under pressure as the number of students entering public universities continues to escalate in the coming years, writes Margaret Gardner. In 2009, the Australian government made a decisive step towards developing a more educated ...

An ambitious plan to create a dual-sector university network could redefine the tertiary education sector in regional Victoria. By David Battersby. It is often said that one of the unheralded success stories in Australian tertiary education has been that of ...

While SA’s VET blueprint has been influenced by its eastern neighbour, it’s not a carbon copy of the Victorian reforms. People with prior high-level qualifications have controversially been excluded from Victoria’s VET entitlement scheme. But South Australia may take an ...

While the SA government might want to turn Adelaide into a university city, it’s VET enrolments that have been the big mover. International enrolments grew faster in South Australia than any other state or territory over most of the last ...