For one vocational education expert AQTF is the minimum standard in a competitive marketplace John Mitchell finds Fortunately, the immediate future of quality in vocational education is in the hands of a pillar of contemporary VET, Kaye Schofield, the interim ...
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Former US consul general to Perth Dr Kenneth Chern has been appointed Professorial Research Fellow at Murdoch University. Chern will work across the university to support its research into South-East Asian affairs. In particular, he will assist the Asia Research ...
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Leading Western Australian neurosurgeon Professor Bryant Stokes has been awarded an honorary doctorate of science from Curtin University, recognising his contribution to the state’s healthcare in the fields of surgical, clinical care and public health policy. He served as the ...
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Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Pallaras and recently retired Justice of the Supreme Court Robyn Layton have joined an elite group of distinguished lawyers appointed to adjunct professorial positions in UniSA’s School of Law. Pallaras has been South Australian Director ...
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Advisor to the Victorian Government on bushfire reconstruction and recovery Christine Nixon was awarded a doctor of laws honoris causa by Macquarie. As former chair of the Victorian Bushfire and Reconstruction and Recovery Authority, Nixon oversaw the largest recovery and ...
More »Humanities a second-term priority for Govt
The creative arts, social sciences and humanities will help secure Australia’s future as a prosperous, innovative, compassionate and fair nation. Traditionally last in line to receive research funding and often looked at as the poor cousin to other disciplines, humanities ...
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Teacher education should focus on the quality of experience, not quantity. Darragh O Keeffe reports. The idea of taking people straight from school, training them at university and then putting them back into school is not the best model for ...
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Does the end of a four-month search mean a new research focus at the country’s highest ranking university? Annette Blackwell talks with Professor Ian Young The new vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, the country’s leading research university, has signaled ...
More »Symposium to open dialogue between Australia and US on international education
Susan Woodward explores the deepening Higher Ed ties between the two countries. One nation pulsates at the centre of the higher education universe, radiating a mammoth learning system that’s home to more than 17 million domestic and 670,000 international students. ...
More »Call for quality and consistency in VET assessments
Two years after an OECD report nailed Australia’s VET system for slow and cumbersome policy development, reform is still desperately needed writes Susan Woodward VET experts said Australia had not taken up many of the recommendations outlined in the 2008 ...
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