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Given there was bipartisan support for the recommendations, TEQSA may now be established by federal parliament in time to meet the government's July 1 deadline. Higher education leaders across the sector have welcomed last week’s Senate Committee recommendations for TEQSA, ...

In 2011 science will be remembered more for its ability to mobilise researchers and the sick and less for its prominence in the budget papers writes Anna-Maria Arabia. Perhaps it is optimistic or even naive to think that in a ...

Overall universities with campuses in rural and regional areas welcomed the budget provisions which they saw as government honouring commitments made in the 2009 budget. Doubling of regional loading, $500 million in the next Education Investment Fund (EIF) round and ...

Faster visa processing and better ability to facilitate the settlement of newcomers needed to attract students to Australia, Arab council hears. New Zealand seems to have captured its share of the international vocational education market – possibly at the expense ...

I hope that the thrust of the findings [in the Skills Australia and the Productivity Commission reports] is underpinned more by evidence that lobbying pressures writes Llandis Barratt-Pugh If the first wave of vocational education and training (VET) reform was ...

International students who want to stay in Australia may find a way via the regional skilled migration plan announced in the federal budget. The 16,000 regional skilled migrant places announced in the federal budget are a renewed opportunity for international ...

The higher education sector has avoided the major federal budget cuts it anticipated. ‘Relief’ sums up higher education reaction to the federal budget, which spared universities the kind of cuts they feared were inevitable in tough economic times. The 3.8 ...

After carving out an impressive research career, Professor Linda Kristjanson takes up her appointment as the new vice-chancellor at Swinburne University of Technology today. Kristjanson leaves Curtin University, where she served as deputy vice-chancellor (research and development). “She is an ...

New NCVER modelling has revised trade apprentice completion rates upwards. But the rates still aren’t good – and they’re virtually unchanged in non-trades areas like administration and sales. Apprenticeship completion rates in trade and technical fields are about a quarter ...

VET - like HE - will move towards a national demand-driven system, under measures in last week's budget. The question is, whose demand? The federal budget has opened up a new fault line in the supposedly integrated tertiary education sector, ...