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Stuart Middleton goes back to school and learns that while the concept of lifelong learning might be simple, the actuality is a different story all together. It is a good thing that when five year olds start at school, they ...

Historians are claiming Australia’s place in the world, write Robert Pascoe and Phillip Deery. The draft new national curriculum in history is a step in the right direction. For too long Australian history has been regarded as boring and pallid ...

Are most VET practitioners capable of increasing the use of e-learning, asks John Mitchell. As part of its year-long investigation into the VET workforce, the Productivity Commission has released an issues paper. And one of the questions raised in the ...

Foundation skills got a big budget boost, but the federal government has shaken the foundations of NSW and Queensland TAFE funding. By John Ross. Foundation skills might have been the big winner in this year’s federal budget, with a $119 ...

Some dismiss dual-sectors as nothing more than institutionalised frameworks for sectoral brawling. But they’re generating plenty of interest, says Leesa Wheelahan. In 2001, the dual sectors admitted just over 9 per cent of students to higher education on the basis ...

Why is Holmesglen succeeding with its degree programs despite major obstacles, asks John Mitchell. The first reason Holmesglen is doing so well offering degree programs is that it is very experienced in this arena, having started 25 years ago by ...

VET teachers need to be engaged with their stock in trade, be relevant and up to date and have a relationship with industry as a whole. By Erica Smith. After some time in the wilderness, the concept of industry currency ...

Associate Professor Baden Offord has been appointed as the chair of Australian studies at the University of Tokyo. Offord is co-director of Southern Cross University’s Centre for Peace and Social Justice and lectures in cultural and Australian studies in the ...

The Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) has appointed Paul Sherlock as chair. Sherlock is the director of information strategy and technology services at UniSA, and has been the director and chair of the SA Broadband Research ...