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Are you going to the staff meeting?

Telltale signs of boredom or intense sense of purpose? How do you engage at staff meetings, asks Joseph Gora. While it is doubtful that anyone with a smidgen of insight would say they like staff meetings, these tortuous rituals can ...

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Realistic strategists accept uncertainty

How can training providers craft successful strategies in unstable times, asks John Mitchell. In the current period of economic turbulence, a significant challenge facing senior managers of VET providers is to develop new strategies to ensure organisational sustainability and, in ...

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VET briefs

Government confirms PPP places open to employers too The Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, Craig Emerson, confirmed last week that the 392,000 Productivity Places Program places allocated for existing workers can also be accessed by ...

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International briefs

Japan, Hong Kong dominate regional rankings The first ranking of Asian higher education institutions by the British company QS, which also conducts global rankings for Times Higher Education, has revealed that Japan and Hong Kong lead the pack. Hong Kong has ...

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On a sticky wicket

Basic and applied research: a cricketing perspective. By Arun Sharma.per cent held Discovery only and 10.8 per cent held both. The corresponding figures for 2009 are 40.3 per cent, 45.3 per cent and 14.4 per cent. The expansion of the ...

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Whither TAFE?

Why qualifications that combine both academic and vocationally recognised outcomes should become part of TAFE’s core profile. By Sylvia Whitmore.qualification that provides both nationally recognised competency-based training and an assured and time-efficient pathway to a higher education qualification. The TAFE ...

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National briefs

Bollywood star snubs Australia had failed to reflect the increasing professionalism of indigenous graduates. “Over the past 10 years in particular, enrolments have moved from sub-degree to degree courses, and students tend to be standard-entry and have diversified into a ...

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Fringe dwellers

Strengthening regional higher education provision is exactly what is needed, but no one yet knows how to achieve it, says Paul Clark.history of development to match the changing economic circumstances of their host city. But as we move to consider ...

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