If the peak body for group training organisations gets its way, the upcoming federal Budget will contain proposals to run all school-based apprenticeships through group training. Group training is an employment arrangement whereby a GTO recruits apprentices, and places them with host ...
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Student bodies stand up for fossil-fuel divestment
A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel "ass-ets". Others got a meeting with their vice-chancellor, and some were questioning institutional thought leadership. It was all in a week's work ...
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Deakin University’s Business School has emerged triumphant from a five-year bureaucratic gauntlet with an international accreditation that inducts it into the top 5 per cent of business faculties worldwide. The school has been stamped with and Association to Advance Collegiate ...
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Quality early education isn’t available for all: report
One-third of children nationwide don’t attend enough preschool, leaving one-fifth of children, many from the poorest backgrounds, developmentally unprepared for school – a new report has found. Quality Early Education for All: Fostering creative, entrepreneurial, resilient and capable learners by ...
More »Torch a flashpoint for innovation’s potential: Jacobs
The University of New South Wales’s Torch Innovation Precinct demonstrates how much of a mistake it would be for the federal government to carry on with predicted budget cuts and not invest in higher education, UNSW’s vice-chancellor has warned. Professor Ian Jacobs ...
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UniMelb trials keystroke detection system to stop cheats
The stroke of a keyboard is all it takes for the University of Melbourne to detect ghost-written essays under a new anti-cheating system the institution is trialing. Cadmus, developed by UniMelb alumni turned entrepreneurs Herk Kailis and Robbie Russo, is a ...
More »TAFE chairs admit low confidence in federal government
The head of the TAFE chairs' lobby group is “probably not” confident renewed funding and federal policy stability will flow into vocational education by the end of the year. TAFE Chairs Australia is calling on the federal government to guarantee ...
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