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By focusing on the business of vocational education and training, rather than good training, we are devaluing a once strong system. The ABC 7.30 Report early this month looked at alleged dodgy training in vocational education and training. It explained ...

An eminent economist believes the Victorian training policy mess is an example of a text book model banging up against the real world. Around Australia, treasury officials and policy advisers are sitting on review committees reconstructing the VET sector. Unfortunately, ...

The various sectors in education have become rigid and fenced off, stifling meaningful development of learning as a whole. It was not done lightly when they named the parts of Berlin after the Second World War that had come to ...

Professor Anne Wallace has been appointed as the head of school of law and justice at Edith Cowan University. Wallace joins ECU from the University of Canberra where she held the position of associate dean (education) in the Faculty of ...

Professor Jane Long will become the new deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at La Trobe University. Long is currently pro vice-chancellor (education) and Winthrop Professor of History at the University of Western Australia, where her responsibilities include teaching and learning planning and ...

Internationally recognised educator, researcher and anatomist, Professor Darrell Evans will join Monash University in January as the new pro vice-chancellor (teaching and learning). Evans trained as an anatomist and developmental biologist, gaining his PhD at Aberdeen University, Scotland, before working ...

Colin Beckett, general manager Greater Gorgon Area, Chevron Australia, has been appointed as the new chancellor of Curtin University, commencing in January. Beckett has spent the past 12 years with Chevron in Perth and has held his current position of ...

La Trobe has also announced Natalie MacDonald will be taking up the role of vice-president (administration) at the university. MacDonald is currently director-general of the Queensland government’s Department of Housing and Public Works – a service provider to all other ...

The co-founder and chief executive officer of Twenty3 Sport and Entertainment, John Tripodi, has been appointed as adjunct professor at RMIT University’s school of economics, finance and marketing. Tripodi has held senior marketing and general management roles at Mars Inc. ...

Victoria Tourism Industry Council CEO Dianne Smith will mentor students and assist their transition into the tourism and events industry in her new role as adjunct professor in Victoria University’s School of international business. Smith has more than 20 years’ ...