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Are TAFE colleges capable of becoming more market-oriented, asks John Mitchell. While there is much public commentary about the negative impact of market reform policies on TAFE colleges, one option for TAFE colleges is to accept the policy shift and ...

Queensland urged to boost regional TAFE courses The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland has urged the state government to offer a wider range of courses on regional TAFE campuses. CCIQ says many students travel hundreds of kilometres to Brisbane, ...

Canadian cheaters to get a sub-F grade Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, has introduced a grade worse than F – FD for “failure with academic dishonesty” – to discourage cheaters. Rob Gordon, the university’s director of criminology, says that ...

Buoyed by the government’s six-month deferral of its changes to workforce eligibility criteria for youth allowance, the federal opposition now plans further amendments to the government’s income support reform Bill once it reaches the Senate. Education spokesperson Christopher Pyne said ...

Inadequate regulation and compliance might be copping much of the blame for the problems in international education. But education and training still suffer from “excessive and duplicative reporting requirements”, according to a new report from the Productivity Commission. The sector ...

The Productivity Places Program has a few staunch friends. It’s well-liked in private training circles, where it’s been a big help getting colleges through the financial crisis. And Julia Gillard’s office has issued regular media releases extolling the program’s latest ...

Economists are finding new, unusual and often weighty fields in which to ply their trade, writes Jeremy Gilling. Economics is emerging from its ghetto as the dismal science to apply its methods in all sorts of quirky, surprising ways to ...

Picking Nobel laureates each year is notoriously difficult. And for those who fancy putting a bob each way, Thomson Reuters has released its list of 2009 Citation Laureates - researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honors. Each year, ...

In a sign of confidence in the enduring health of the international student market, private higher education provider the International College of Management, Sydney this month introduced seven new degrees. With a ratio of 55 per cent domestic students to ...

Indian student visa requests decline Fewer Indians are applying to study in Australia, immigration officials have admitted, in more worrying signs for the nation’s $15 billion international education industry. Department of Immigration official Peter Vardos told a Senate committee hearing ...