Month: May 2013
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In the News
Learning in order to earn
The certainty and simplicity of the old apprenticeship model has become a tangled mess. By Stuart Middleton It was…
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What UK education can learn from us
International education faces one key problem: The voting public, politicians, and civil servants do not understand who we are, or…
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Federal cuts bite hard
There wasn’t much in the way of good news for universities, even before the 2013 budget was handed down. By…
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Higher education booming online
The rise of massive open online courses has created wide mainstream interest in online higher education technologies. By Andrew Norton…
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Greens advance campaign to boost higher education funding
Increased public funding for higher education is at the top of the Greens election agenda. The Australian Greens have said…
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Casualisation a “dirty secret”
Casualisation of the workforce is “the dirty little secret of university expansion”, the National Tertiary Education Union told the public…
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Nursing’s Catch-22
Forecasts say the nursing workforce will soon be in crisis, so why can’t nursing grads get jobs? By Antonia Maiolo The…
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Fewer apprentices commencing training
Fewer people are starting an apprentice or traineeship, the latest early trend estimates for trade and non-trade commencements shows. Estimates,…
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Disadvantaged at most risk after uni funding cuts
Disadvantaged students will be hardest hit by federal plans to cut $2.8 billion in funding from higher education, according to…
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Future Skill Demands
As the pace of change accelerates in our workplaces, we must make sure we are skilling up in ways that…
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Continuing a culture of learning
Emphasis on the fostering of learning is underrated. By Liz Harris The leading weekly business newspaper in Western Australia,…
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In the News
Grow up, Australia
It’s time Australia quit its unhealthy obsession with high-ATAR cut offs and started ‘massifying’ education in the interests of true…
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Don’t make study harder
With more Australians getting a degree, it would be a travesty to turn people off with university cuts. National Tertiary…
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The Science of Compliance
One of the risks of running an educational institution is keeping compliant with government regulations. Every six months, I hear…
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The future of teacher education
It is not difficult to figure out why there has been so much attention devoted to teacher education lately. ATARs…
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Monash pulls plug on IT jobs
Dozens of IT jobs will go at Monash University after it announced workers will be offered voluntary redundancies. The university…
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SA uni holds jam session
The University of South Australia is staging one of the biggest conversations about its future this month. The only difference…
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Gippsland-Ballarat regional uni to proceed
Despite the uncertainty of the times and changes to government funding, the planned joint venture of Monash University and the…
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Iron Lady
The recent death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has given rise to a spate of articles about the…
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The power of giving
There is an almost alchemical mystery to successful fundraising. So what drives this generosity, and how can institutions create the…
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A new model of science teaching
Science classes at university are on the downward slide but plans are afoot to refresh how the disciplines are taught.…
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An imperfect case for a new VET system
High hopes for an improved VET quality framework remain unfulfilled. By John Mitchell The initial hopes raised by VET policy…
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Send skilled migrants home temporarily: academic
One of Australia's leading demographers has told the United Nations that developed countries should give skilled migrants incentives to temporarily…
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Gonski report ‘flawed’: new report
The Gonski report rests on flaws that could undermine it as the base of Australia’s education policy, says a new…
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Where do we fit?
International education is facing many challenges. At the heart of the matter lies a key question: Do we have a…
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