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Ros Brennan Kemmis on raising the bar on VET teacher qualifications. The quality and success of students are intrinsically tied to the skills and abilities of the teachers and trainers. The prodigious body of research literature on the correlation between ...

The quality and success of students are intrinsically tied to the skills and abilities of the teachers and trainers. The prodigious body of research literature on the correlation between teacher qualifications and quality outcomes for students seems to have been ...

The bold American graduation initiative is the latest victim of health care congressional backroom deals, writes Martin Riordan. The Obama administration’s passage through Congress of the historic health care insurance reforms has masked unexpected big cuts to the 2010 budget ...

Should outstanding providers of international education pay for the poor practices of others, asks John Mitchell. There is an unfortunate downside to the avalanche of publicity over the past six months about a minority of private providers offering international students ...

Henry Barnes ponders whether he should call the new professor a chair or wardrobe? As the linguistic secret police will tell you, language in any form is a tricky business. It’s endlessly fluid, subjective and weighed down with those nasty ...

The government has elevated the art of pork barrelling to new heights, by directing infrastructure enhancement funding to the places where the infrastructure already exists, writes John Ross. A special Campus Review investigation has unearthed signs of a carefully constructed ...

The trend towards peer review of teaching is simply a reaction to the current debate on how to assess quality of teaching. It should have been on the agenda years ago, writes David Woodhouse. When I was a dean in ...

What does industry currency really mean to VET practitioners, asks John Mitchell. The credibility of the VET sector hinges largely on whether the skills of its practitioners match the skills used in contemporary industry. But the industry currency of VET ...