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The WA government has announced it will overhaul and rebrand its TAFE sector to prepare for a renewed resources boom on the back of the surge in natural gas contracts, the state government says. A new Department of Training and ...

German PhD scandal German prosecutors are investigating over 100 senior academics at a dozen of the country’s top universities on suspicion that they awarded doctorates to hundreds of mediocre or unqualified students after taking bribes from a firm of educational ...

The University of Phoenix’s parent company has taken a toehold in the UK market, writes Lucy Hodges. A huge, private, US higher education company has established a foothold in the UK market. Apollo Global has just paid £303 million ($590 ...

The study of languages from primary school would engender understanding and compassion, writes Stephen Connelly. When I lived in Malaysia, my picture was often in the local newspapers, either on advertisements for the college at which I worked or attached ...

Practice-led research is changing how we approach humanities research. Now we need to consider what this might mean for ways in which the humanities evolve in universities, says Graeme Harper. Universities in Australia and Britain discuss it regularly, though the ...

The federal government’s green training corps claims it will deliver a Year 12-equivalent qualification after just five-hours a week training over 26 weeks.tender document for organisations hoping to gain funding under the program. The government says the green corps will ...

Chubb, CSIRO ride high on best-paid list ANU vice-chancellor Professor Ian Chubb is the sixth-best-paid Commonwealth public servant, according to a list compiled by crikey.com. with a remuneration package of around $985,000 – miles ahead of the best-paid politician (Kevin ...

Year 10 students have a right to know about prerequisites for tertiary courses in 2012, writes Elaine Wenn. In his commentary, Conor King put a view that tertiary admissions centres and Victorian universities are adopting an ostrich stance in response ...

Failing private providers send government’s into a frenzy, but what exactly is their role in the free market, asks Conor King. The question of how best to regulate organisations offering tertiary education to Australian or international students is growing into ...