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What bright ideas will help TAFE staff develop new capabilities, asks John Mitchell. With mounting pressure on TAFEs to increase their ability to make money, in the future many more TAFE staff may be rated by their potential to generate ...

Walker to quit Deakin appointed deputy director with responsibility for education and Professor Andrew Leigh has been appointed deputy director with responsibility for research. New Curtin PVC for humanities Curtin University has appointed Professor Majella Franzmann as the pro vice-chancellor ...

A program at UTS is improving economic students’ analytical writing skills, writes Fiona Livy. “Students don’t necessarily arrive at university with academic writing skills, but these are skills that can be taught,” says Kerry Hunter, lecturer with UTS’s ELSSA Centre. ...

Immersive dramatic techniques are challenging assumptions about how to teach business, writes Linda Belardi. A student in the role of a marketing consultant prepares for a briefing with the CEO of a leading tourism firm. The client is demanding and ...

It’s been a big year in tertiary education. Or has it? We asked the experts to highlight the highlights. By John Ross. How will educational historians judge 2009? The Year of the Seamless Sector? The Year of Social Inclusion? The ...

Early this year, reports of the imminent death of international education proved premature. As the year closes, the industry’s prospects are no clearer, writes John Ross. The more things change, the more they stay the same. At the beginning of ...

Any new measure of SES needs to have the confidence of the sector and is fit for purpose, writes Trevor Gale. DEEWR is on the verge of releasing its discussion paper on how to measure socioeconomic status (SES) for higher ...

Women drive participation target While the Bradley review’s 2025 target of 40 per cent of 25-34 year olds with a bachelor degree or above may be well within reach (CR online, 30.11.09), there’s an important caveat. The ABS’s annual ‘Education ...

It could be dubbed the “year of equity” in higher education, says Professor Trevor Gale. And it came in four roughly overlapping periods: January to February: Brace yourself The year began in uncertainty. It was unclear whether the government would ...