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Released after two years of consultation, new guidelines on the core skills needed for work identify just what they look like and how they can be developed. By Sue Goodwin and Kate Perkins. Employability skills, generic skills, key competencies, graduate ...

As universities navigate their way through a period of unprecedented change, it may be time for them to embrace proven business management approaches. By Marc Englaro. After a decade of relative stability, the tertiary education sector has entered an uncertain ...

Academics and experts must go on the offensive when spin and vested interests threaten to rule the day. Science is under attack and research is easily mocked – and a large proportion of our population are easily persuaded to believe ...

2013 produced some strange developments, making 2014 less predictable. By John Mitchell. 2013 was an odd year for the VET sector, increasing the likelihood that 2014 will be even stranger. Following on from 2012 which was characterized by the unprecedented ...

A new interactive online program to teach students the basics in consumer rights and responsibilities aims to meet a strong demand for such a course from business. By Antonia Maiolo. Australia’s competition watchdog has launched a MOOC-style course to help ...

The emerging polytechnic model straddles the interface of vocational training and higher education, and also addresses an anomaly in the area of support for student fees. By Meeuwis Boelen. The year 2013 marks the rise of the polytechnic with both ...

Extra numbers of graduates brought in to meet future shortages are struggling to find jobs. By Louis White. Australia may be gearing up for a nursing shortage in 2025, but in the interim nursing graduates around the country are struggling ...

Global rankings of Australian universities are already under threat as government cuts cast a long shadow and pressure rises for alternative sources of funding.   By Louis White. Professor Ed Byrne has some bad news for the university sector. The vice-chancellor ...

The number of Australians with mental health problems is enormous, but education in this complex area has tended to be neglected – a situation that universities are now being urged to address in their training of nursing students.  By Antonia ...

A COAG report paints a worrying picture of increasing marginalisation of disadvantaged youth, prompting calls for redoubled efforts to apply proven strategies to get young people into study and jobs. By Antonia Maiolo. More than one in four young people ...