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  Labor’s independent review of university red tape will streamline regulatory requirements. By Antonia Maiolo Tertiary education minister Craig Emerson and minister for higher education Sharon Bird have announced a planned review that will potentially ease the burden of increased reporting ...

The Regional Universities Network is pioneering a pilot project to overcome barriers hampering maths and science education in rural, regional and remote Australia. RUN has been awarded a federal grant of $900,000 for the one-year pilot project: RUN Maths and ...

  The scrapping of Student Start-up Scholarships for new students from 2014 will inevitably see university students sacrificing study time for more paid work. According to Roger Deutscher, manager of student housing and financial aid at the University of Melbourne, ...

  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 ...