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Universities say the government was right to delay performance funding. The government was justified in its budget decision to defer $95 million of performance funding promised as part of the mission-based compacts, universities have conceded. The funds – $47.5 million ...

A budget reduction to early HECS repayment incentives – unexpected, unlike the halving of the up-front payment discount – will help the government save almost half a billion dollars. On top of the halving of the 20 per cent discount ...

The commission's report on the VET workforce is of mixed quality, says John Mitchell. The Productivity Commission‘s recent report on the VET workforce is a major piece of work containing both strengths and weaknesses. It is a pity there are ...

Universities are teaching methodologies five to ten years old, Beverley Head finds University computing schools aren’t turning out IT graduates with Agile computing skills as fast as businesses would like, leaving companies using the Agile approach to systems development with ...

The  majority of awards, grants and fellowships provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council will be available through the body that has replaced many of its functions, but some cuts will be  made to the number of awards and ...

All VET providers – not just private colleges – should be more transparent, says Skills Australia. Private VET providers would be forced to divulge full details of their services and success rates, and TAFEs would have to boost their transparency, ...

Top research by the University of Melbourne pushes it high in the latest QS world rankings. The University of Melbourne is the Australian research star in the latest trickle of world university ranking data to be released by Quacquarelli Symonds ...

New York University wants to open a site at a historic site on Sydney Harbour. New York University has confirmed plans to open a harbourside campus in Sydney next year. A spokesperson told Campus Review the new site would cater to about ...

Higher education stakeholders are treading water on Budget eve The fortunes of the vocational education and training sector are expected to shine in an otherwise lacklustre status quo outcome for higher education in this year's federal Budget. Amid the final ...

TAFE directors accuse commission of misjudging levels of teacher qualifications in public VET colleges The Productivity Commission included data from one undisclosed state in Australia, to highlight concerns about qualifications in sections of the TAFE workforce, TAFE Directors Australia say. ...