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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 ...

  Emphasis on the fostering of learning is underrated. By Liz Harris The leading weekly business newspaper in Western Australia, WA Business News, often features lots of men in expensive suits and reports regularly on news in the finance, property ...

 As the pace of change accelerates in our workplaces, we must make sure we are skilling up in ways that are going to match future needs. By Philip Bullock It’s never been easy to predict which skills and qualifications are ...

Disadvantaged students will be hardest hit by federal plans to cut $2.8 billion in funding from higher education, according to senior university staff. By Antonia Maiolo Victoria University (VU) reported it stands to lose up to $4.4 million a year ...

Fewer people are starting an apprentice or traineeship, the latest early trend estimates for trade and non-trade commencements shows. Estimates, released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Apprentices and Trainees 2013 – early trend estimates, March quarter, ...

Forecasts say the nursing workforce will soon be in crisis, so why can’t nursing grads get jobs? By Antonia Maiolo The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) estimates that only half of the nurses that graduated in South Australia last year have been ...

Despite the uncertainty of the times and changes to government funding, the planned joint venture of Monash University and the University of Ballarat will go ahead. Monash vice-chancellor Ed Byrne said, “The impact of the government's announcement is not yet ...

The University of South Australia is staging one of the biggest conversations about its future this month. The only difference is that conversation will take place online. On May 29-30, the university will launch a “unijam”, bringing together thousands of ...