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With all eyes on the legislation to set up the new VET regulator, training ministers have quietly axed the organisation that was expected to house the VET standards agency. The week before the federal government managed by a hair’s breadth ...

The federal government is upbeat about the prospects for a genuinely national system of VET regulation, after the NVR legislation narrowly passed parliament. The government has successfully steered its national vocational regulator (NVR) bills through both houses of parliament, after ...

With its straw polls and ‘gotcha’ moments, the media is killing debate, a Canberra policy forum heard last week. The nature of modern media and the desire of academics and other advocates to speak freely are coming together in a ...

University research into education is a matter of concern, says Kim Carr. Australian universities’ “widespread under-performance” in education research is disturbing, Innovation Minister Kim Carr told a Parliament House policy forum last week. Carr told the "HASS on the Hill" ...

Students want a bona fide review of student income support that doesn’t rule out fresh funds. An upcoming federal review into youth allowance has fired up the National Union of Students (NUS), which says the system needs more money - ...

Foster defends her soft marking finding based on statistical analysis Economist Dr Gigi Foster, who interpreted her econometric research data as showing that UTS and the University of South Australia were soft marking international students in their business faculties has ...

The ERA has given universities a chance to find out how well they’re doing on indigenous research – so long as they’re researching the indigenous culture of New Zealand. Last year’s Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) exercise didn’t give universities ...

An “extremely disappointed” ALTC board is determined to salvage the organisation’s work and make it available to the higher education sector. A new web site will live on after the demise of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), as ...

Ballarat hasn’t waited for foreign university legislation to get through before announcing a new partnership operation in India. Australia has taken the next tentative step into the Indian higher education market, with the University of Ballarat announcing plans to establish ...

Far too few women are considering a potential career path in science, writes Annie May. It has been predicted that this year Australia faces a shortage of 20,000 scientists and engineers, and many other countries across the world are faring ...