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  There is a serious policy vacuum on skills funding. By Martin Riordan The rush by Canberra to raid previously sacrosanct university funding, and states leaping to raise TAFE and vocational education fees or withdraw group training funds amid the ...

The number of new apprenticeships has dwindled in the last twelve months. NSW has seen a drop by 10 per cent in new apprenticeships and traineeships since this time last year. Considering the implications of this downward trend, employers are ...

  ASQA’s chief commissioner Chris Robinson explains the need for strong regulation. By John Mitchell. How many current VET providers are shonky operators? Is it one per cent, two per cent or five per cent of the 5,000 or so ...

Casualisation of the workforce is “the dirty little secret of university expansion”, the National Tertiary Education Union told the public parliamentary hearings into insecure employment bill. The union, speaking at the parliamentary hearing in Victoria last Friday, said the Fair ...

Increased public funding for higher education is at the top of the Greens election agenda. The Australian Greens have said they will reverse the $2.3 billion cut to university funding, Greens leader, senator Christine Milne, has said, during a national ...

The rise of massive open online courses has created wide mainstream interest in online higher education technologies. By Andrew Norton In its October 29, 2012 edition, Time magazine published a cover story on ‘reinventing college’, asking if online technology could ...

There wasn’t much in the way of good news for universities, even before the 2013 budget was handed down. By Mardi Chapman In the wash-up of the 2013 budget, treasurer Wayne Swan delivered relatively little to universities in the way ...

International education faces one key problem: The voting public, politicians, and civil servants do not understand who we are, or where we fit in. By Phil Honeywood Despite a lack of understanding of the major issues the industry faces, a ...

  The certainty and simplicity of the old apprenticeship model has become a tangled mess. By Stuart Middleton It was easy once. Young people wanting to learn a trade would typically leave school (often as soon as they were allowed) ...

It’s time Australia quit its unhealthy obsession with high-ATAR cut offs and started ‘massifying’ education in the interests of true nation building. By Jan Thomas Tertiary entrance scores are officially ‘on the nose’. Rather than labelling some institutions as “second ...