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The time has come for international education to do some “future casting”. The international education community needs to stop obsessing about the downturn and start focusing on ways to get past it, peak groups say. The executive director of the ...

The federal government has hosed down plans for a national training guarantee, even though the Victorian prototype appears to have led to increased participation. The federal government has gone cold on its plan to introduce a national student entitlement scheme ...

Responding to the need for qualified radiographers and sonographers in regional Queensland, Central Queensland University opened new $4 million medical and applied sciences laboratories at its Mackay campus last week. Equipped with state-of-the-art digital imaging equipment, the laboratories replicate a ...

Australia punches above its funding weight in science research Natasha Egan finds as she looks at faculties across the country are faring Science enrolments are up, not enough students are doing maths, there are challenges around student teacher ratios, all ...

Failure to consider all relevant data and the lack of detailed explanations raise concerns about the Grattan Institute’s conclusions writes Ian Goulter T he Grattan Institute is proposing a radical change in how Australia invests in regional development and higher ...

There is a serious shortage of high-impact research in management studies and a one-sided focus on journal publications is to blame say Jorgen Sandberg and Mats Alvesson Never have so many worked so hard and published so much, to so ...

The impact of a first-in-family graduate is not linear but multi-directional writes Stuart MiddletonThe impact of a first-in-family graduate is not linear but multi-directional Excuse me if what I write seems emotional – it’s graduation week and we have all ...

Why qualifications matter for TAFE teachers, and why the Productivity Commission got it wrongSkills Australia released its roadmap for vocational education and training: Skills for Australia on May 3 and the Productivity Commissioned released a Research Report from its study ...

New web portal will make it easy for employers to find work-ready graduates Experience in the workplace for students will be easier to arrange with the establishment of a website linking tertiary institutions and employers. The national Work Integrated Learning ...

To assist industry with workforce development plans, vocational educators need to get their own house in order, writes John Mitchell. The recent reports by Skills Australia and the Productivity Commission acknowledged the role of VET in assisting industries with workforce ...