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Can VET and higher education get on better outside of the academy, asks John Mitchell. Almost every time the subject of collaboration between VET and higher education arises, the conversation gets tangled up in the differences between the two sectors, ...

The federal government is staying silent on Henry review proposals to improve student income support – and it’s not inviting vice-chancellors to a pre-budget pow-wow, either. The government should let students use HECS for some of their living expenses as ...

Talking a walk down memory lane, Robin Ryan says there might be nothing new under the sun, but Australian VET is on the cusp of significant change. Nothing reminds one of advancing age more than being asked to reflect on ...

Pam Christie recently took up one of the most senior positions in TAFE nationally, as deputy director-general, TAFE and community education, in the NSW Department of Education and Training. She spoke candidly to John Mitchell about whether TAFE was capabl ...

Is the Go8 really the best place to park Australia’s research budget, ask Roderick Duncan and Mark Morrison. Imagine you are a bureaucrat in Canberra deciding where to spend taxpayer dollars to boost research. Which universities should receive the extra ...

The Campus Review story on Carnegie Mellon University (03.05.10) was inaccurate and lacked important information about our role in South Australia. Just four short years ago, as part of a vision for building an education hub, the South Australian government ...

Megan Davis, director of the Indigenous Law Centre in the Faculty of Law at UNSW, is the first Australian indigenous woman to be elected to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Although nominated by the federal government, she will ...

At the recent 13th AVETRA conference in Queensland, Llandis Barratt-Pugh was confirmed as the fifth president of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Researchers Association. Barratt-Pugh is currently coordinator of the leadership and change management stream of the MBA program ...

Professor Rónán McDonald, a scholar of Samuel Beckett, literary critic and historian of Irish modernism, has been appointed as the Australian Ireland Fund chair in modern Irish studies at UNSW. McDonald is director of the new John Hume Institute in ...