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Just when you thought the South Australian government had buried the VET sector through blithering incompetence, there’s a knock from below, writes Malcolm King The SA government poured $568 million in to Skills for All course subsidies over the past ...

Bjorn Lomborg has led the search for a home for his taxpayer-funded Australian think tank. The federal government decided more than a year ago it would help Lomborg set up a think tank based on the model used at his ...

If the incitement of debate on controversial topics was the goal of the Edu Tech conference taking place in Brisbane this week, then its organisers must have been thrilled with the presentation of MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. Addressing ...

ANU staff and students are set to begin breathing a little easier from next month with the university announcing a blanket smoking ban set to come into force across all its campuses and facilities. The move, announced yesterday as part ...

Macquarie University has withdrawn the degrees of two former graduates, and prevented a further 10 current students from graduating, following an inquest into academic fraud. The inquest – which the university said was carried out by an independent party – was launched after ...

Jail time and homelessness go hand-in-hand, new research shows. A survey of 1400 Australians who were homeless, or at risk of it, found 42 per cent had been released from prison, juvenile detention or remand within the preceding six months. ...

The difference in how two Labor governments handled criticism of programs shows how bringing problems to light leads to better reform. By John Mitchell Just one glance at the policy failures in the VET sector suggests there is eminent sense ...

Cigarettes will be "so last century" in Tasmania if laws are extended to prevent the sale of tobacco to people born after the year 2000, health experts say. Tasmania's current laws already prevent the sale of tobacco to people born ...

Higher education sector leaders have blamed inadequate funding for the “concerning downward trend” of Australia’s international ranking in the annual Universitas 21 list. In the rankings, released last week, Australia is now 10th in the world. Singapore overtook Australia, which is down one spot from ninth in 2014 ...

If you're dreaming of buying one of those new Tesla home batteries and running your house "off the grid" and power bill-free, you really are dreaming, according to Australian academics. Elon Musk, the charismatic founder of the Tesla electric car company, ...