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Can the private sector ready to step into the breach, asks Stephen Connelly. There has been a lot of discussion recently about the future of the international education in Australia, particularly in the context of the global economic downturn. Going ...

The Bradley review does not preserve the status quo, but encourages choice based on value not price, says Conor King. The Bradley review poses the government a challenge: if it does not substantially take up the recommendations, what does it ...

How far are VET policy makers willing to go in reviewing training packages? By John Mitchell. There is a growing unease among some VET analysts that the current review of training packages being conducted by the National Quality Council (NQC) ...

VET needs a good understanding of employability skills to build them into teaching and learning says, Kaye Bowman. As Larry Smith suggests, we need to develop and nurture a new understanding of generic competencies (CR,21.10.08). Employers would welcome this. They ...

Elkadi to head architecture and buildingh is in the field of the ecological physiology of vertebrates. Astheimer replaces Professor David Stokes, who will continue at Deakin on a consultancy basis. She will take up her appointment of 9 March. Story ...

As an English professor in a Chinese university, Simon Haines discovers first hand why bi-lingualism is a powerful tool. If you go down to the central district of Hong Kong Island on a Sunday morning you can barely move, even ...

Korean fathers pay high cost for education Korean fathers are being forced into lonely and work-addicted lives in an attempt to give their children an overseas education, according to a report in the Korea Times. Kim Seong-kon, a professor of ...

While engineering enrolments are recovering, concerns remain about the mathematical capabilities of some students, reports Jeremy Gilling.ermediate maths in South Australian schools within two years.” Another fundamental of engineering and science education is access to laboratories, often outside normal working ...

The confidence of engineering deans and industry leaders that the sharp decline in enrolments between 2001 and 2006 would be reversed in 2007 has been vindicated (CR, 03.06.08). Data for 2007 shows a full recovery in enrolments in both bachelor ...