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Universities are pushing IT companies to come up with answers to their problem of storing massive amounts of digital information.  Corporate Australia is just starting to grapple with the concept of “big data”. It’s one area where the universities are ...

The dean of arts at McDazzle University, Professor Terry Smart, is poring over TEQSA’s new Regulatory Risk Framework as the head of cultural studies, Dr Don Doubt, enters the room.  Professor Smart [Rubbing hands together]: Isn’t it bloody marvellous?! Dr ...

The bad performance of some VET providers should not overshadow the good job that the majority of private operators are doing in Victoria says Peter Hall. It is disappointing that yet again in recent weeks, commentary in Campus Review and ...

Skills Victoria’s implementation of market-based VET funding has raised some fundamental issues for the sector. The implementation has prompted stakeholders to express concern about whether the era of industry leadership of VET is now over, replaced by student entitlement, and ...

 Deakin University’s new gateway building for its Melbourne campus won’t have lecture theatres but a number of meeting places. The thinking behind the design is that teaching and learning has changed markedly in the digital age. The cost of the ...

This week we feature a number of news stories and comment pieces that cover the main issues in the vocational educational training sector. Those issues include the ongoing debate about the value of the public versus the private sector. They ...

The government today elevated skills training to be a key economic driver by promising that all Australians would be entitled to government-funded training if the states and territories sign up to a new federal government plan. And Prime Minister Julie ...

Gill Troup, who has been deputy principal (strategy and performance) at the University of the West of Scotland for four years, has been appointed vice-president (strategy and planning) at Flinders University in South Australia. Troup has been hired to provide ...

Curtin University has appointed  Professor Graeme Wright as deputy vice-chancellor, research and development. Wright began his career at Curtin in 1991 as a lecturer in spatial sciences, before obtaining his PhD in the same discipline in 2000. In 2004, he was ...

Dr Sam Harvey, has been appointed to the first dedicated clinical research post into workplace mental health in an Australian university. Harvey joins the University of New South Wales from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, one of Europe’s largest ...