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The government will offer all workers retrenched since January a guaranteed training place, not just to those aged 20 to 24 as previously announced. The measure is an additional compact added to the raft of entitlements and targets it has ...

How can a professor of medicine claim 800 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed articles in his career when most research academics struggle to write five a year? This is the question posed by Sergio Sismondo in a recent issue of the ...

Government subsidies to encourage employers to take on apprentices or trainees may be less effective than commonly supposed, according to new research from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. But the report’s principal author, Professor Andrew Smith from the ...

Australian universities have made significant progress in teaching and learning over the course of the first round of audits conducted by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). But most institutions fell short of translating plans and policies into effective implementation ...

Is Australia condemned to an endless cycle of high unemployment alternating with periods of rapid economic growth and skill shortages? Or is there a better way, in which learning and labour flows proceed in tandem? general, reflective learning in VET, ...

Even with only three degrees and 42 students, Tabor College is a “state of flux at every level”, contributing to a lack of common purpose, ill-informed staff, and compliance-oriented quality management, according to the higher education audit agency.heir performance should ...

Macquarie University is doing its bit to help the Rudd government achieve its mission of more people from more diverse backgrounds coming to university under its social inclusion agenda. The university has developed a way to help students with disabilities ...

Concern over unacceptably high PhD and masters non-completion rates and long completion times has led Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRUA) to embark on a program to help remedy the situation.ion rates in Australia are hard to pin down, but have ...

Another step towards a unified tertiary education sector was taken last month with the release of a consultation paper on reforming the Australian Qualifications Framework. The paper follows a commitment from education minister Julia Gillard in March to build a ...

Engineering students from Queensland and France will exchange campuses for part of their study, and emerge with dual qualifications. It’s a fairly common arrangement in many disciplines, but breaks new ground for engineering. UQ’s Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information ...