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A dramatic decline in the number of high school students studying science has prompted a variety of interventions to reverse the trend. By Annie May. There is growing concern that the significant decline in high school students choosing senior physics, ...

Education is increasingly out of the reach of the average American, and Toby Miller wonders why. A few months ago, I asked a puppeteer, an artist, a perfumier, and an assistant professor – each of whom were their first generation ...

Joseph Gora’s son is a first-year undergraduate and he’s already disenchanted with uni life. You know the song ‘Glory Days’ by The Boss - Bruce Springsteen. It’s a rousing anthem about how people reminisce about a fictitious past all aglow ...

Performance-based funding is appealing to governments, but Peter Ewell argues there are three reasons why it’s not an effective mechanism There is something quite beguiling about performance funding. It is relentlessly capitalistic and is largely in accord with the way ...

Which story exactly? The one about the increase in the number of university graduates that the western world lusts after, writes Stuart Middleton. Increasingly, we are becoming very specific about the skills and knowledge students need if they are to ...

26 Jul 10 | Print this story | Send this story to a friend Will regional TAFE institutes survive the Victorian VET market reforms, asks John Mitchell. The national TAFE community is listening intently for any stories about the ramifications ...

There is an art to using student engagement surveys – focus on the least engaged, writes Megan Robinson. When assessing the quality of education at their institution, universities should not look solely at average results from student engagement surveys but ...

An anomaly in the figures DEEWR has used to allocate HEPPP funding has raised questions over the accuracy of the data underpinning its interim SES measure. The figures say that Batchelor Institute had around 500 undergraduates receiving selected Centrelink benefits ...

Where do polytechnics fit within the emerging tertiary sector, asks John Mitchell. TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) recently released a discussion paper, ‘Blueprint for Australia’s tertiary education’, advocating a role for TAFE institutes in offering degrees supported by Commonwealth funding. One ...