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Training was front and centre in the federal budget. But the opposition left it behind the dead ball line. VET was given top billing in the federal budget, with the government highlighting its so-called $3 billion training package as the ...

Labor claims universities have reaped a $3 billion windfall since it took office. But a higher education analyst says its projections are misleading. Federal spending on higher education is about $3 billion more than it would have been if the ...

Universities were not providing the necessary data to satisfy the governments writes David Woodhouse. In response to Campus Review’s budget story that universities had foregone some indicator-based funding the executive director of AUQA explains why. When AUQA began operations in ...

There are no tribal leaders at the University of Wollongong, Annette Blackwell finds Gerard Sutton can deliver a tough message with soothing ease. The ease comes from a combination of personality and a working lifetime deeply immersed in the institutional ...

Independence – and how to define it – has emerged as a key issue for the income support review. Arguments about dependent and independent Youth Allowance would become a thing of the past, and almost all students would become eligible ...

Australian students want better income support, but the government doesn’t want to spend any more money. HECS for living costs could meet both objectives, according to new modelling. The federal government could entice as many as half a million more ...

Student demand and industry demand aren’t the same thing. In May 2009, with the Bradley report still warm from the presses, the Rudd government’s second budget heralded a “new era” for universities. “This reform will ensure universities cater to the ...

This wasn’t really VET’s year, budget papers suggest. The federal government nominated its $3 billion Building Australia’s future workforcepackage as the centrepiece of last week’s budget. But an analysis of budget commitments suggests the real VET windfall was somewhere between $255 ...

Evans brings in HEFCE executive to help with transition of Australian teaching and learning programs to DEEWR An international expert has been enlisted to assist in the transition of programs from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) into DEEWR. ...

Indigenous students are engaged with the university experience but completiion rates are lower than the general student population Susan Page and Christine Asmar explore why In comparison to their non-indigenous peers, indigenous students are just as satisfied with their university ...