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Victoria University has been accused of having a “manufactured deficit” to justify sweeping workforce restructures, a claim that university management has firmly denied. Paul Adams, president of the National Tertiary Education Union’s VU branch, said the 115 job losses that ...

You don’t often see a positive spin on unemployment figures. In this case, however, mums have cause to smile. The OECD has tipped them as the single largest potential contributor to Australia’s workforce. In a report, Connecting People with Jobs, ...

Academia and the corporate sector are two worlds that can learn from one another. That’s the view of Dr Lesley Halliday, YourTutor’s general manager of academic services, who made the jump to a corporate career. Previously, she worked at Macquarie ...

Trade apprenticeship numbers have continued their decline, new statistics from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research have shown, with the number of new apprentices plummeting. Between September 2015 and September 2016, trade apprenticeship numbers decreased by 4.7 per cent ...

Classroom mindfulness can cause anxiety and stress in students who’ve experienced trauma, an expert has warned. Flinders University education academic Dr Leigh Burrows has advised that teachers who want to use the practice should learn their students' backgrounds and not ...

The federal government is looking to bring Indonesian VET trainers to Australia, so they can learn and return to educate their homeland. Karen Andrews, federal assistant minister for vocational education and skills, said this is part of an effort to ...

Victoria University has confirmed that 115 jobs will be cut throughout the year as it establishes its planned First Year College. VU provost and deputy vice-chancellor professor Kerri-Lee Krause said 115 staff members “will exit the university over the course ...

For Andy Sheats, improving the student experience is tied to greater transparency in higher education. Recently announced as Open Universities Australia’s new executive general manager of student experience, Sheats wants to use data to help students make their study choices. ...

What is innovation? According to the editor of a new report calling for the modernisation of higher education, this is a question the sector is yet to answer. Dr Rod Gutierrez, director of higher education strategy at business consultancy Lee ...

Born in 1915, Aboriginal activist Shirley Andrews studied science at the University of Melbourne in the 1930s before going on to work for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the precursor of the CSIRO. She was a staunch political ...