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TAFEs could end up as the big winners from the federal government’s structural adjustment fund, even though they can’t apply in their own right – but they could also end up victims. Applications to the structural adjustment fund (SAF) suggest ...

South Australians want a contestable VET system, according to the state government. But the education union says there’s no evidence it will improve things. South Australians will receive guaranteed government-supported training places, its TAFEs will become statutory authorities, HECS-style loans ...

Several towns could gain university campuses, if SAF applications go their way. The Commonwealth “is not so interested in lots more bricks and mortar”, according to University of Ballarat vice-chancellor David Battersby, with TAFEs expected to host higher education’s expansion ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry have proclaimed 2011 the International Year of Chemistry. During the year, celebrations and special events will be held around the globe to ...

Tertiary institutions are much too inflexible and rigid on the matter of changing programs writes Stuart Middleton I bought some shirts the other day. When I got home I found that one of them was too small, it does pay ...

SA government reverses the trend, writes John Mitchell. The elephant in the room in VET is TAFE. It delivers most of the training and enrols the vast majority of students in VET, but its owners, the state and territory governments, ...

It is that time of year, the eve of semester start, when lecturers, fulltime and casual, feel the slow burn stress gather momentum. With some rhetorical infusions Joseph Gora re-imagines a typical scenario Trudy Crappay, an experienced casual academic at ...

Bureaucrats will never have ALTC’s ability to energise a community of activists willing to commit their own time to the collective improvement of teaching and learning writes Peter Goodyear Flood damage is insidious. Its effects can be far-reaching. The latest ...

Shutting down the council will be catastrophic for student experience and for innovative teaching projects which have long term benefits, writes Shirley Alexander Last week’s announcement that the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) would be axed sent shock waves ...

Dr Andrew Peele, head of La Trobe University’s Physics X-Ray Science group, has been appointed head of science at the Australian Synchrotron. The secondment was announced jointly this week by the acting director of the synchrotron, Dr George Borg, and ...