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Uni international managers’ plea to the next government: make your left arm talk to your right arm. Coordinating the actions of its disparate departments is the single most important thing the incoming federal government can do to help the ailing ...

VET completion rates are almost subterranean – but this says as much about students’ goals as it does about their persistence. Barely a quarter of VET course enrolments are completed successfully, according to new estimates from the National Centre for ...

NSW is braver than Victoria when it comes to equity. And it’s about 10 per cent braver than Canberra when it comes to attainment. When you’re trying to go as high as you can, sometimes your starting level is the ...

The independence of Victoria’s TAFE institutes is the envy of the nation. And the state government is flexing its muscles to make sure it stays that way. The Victorian opposition has accused the Brumby government of politicising TAFE leadership, as ...

Community resistance to migration – and political pandering to it – could cost us half our overseas students. International student numbers could halve over the next four years unless the incoming government changes the immigration policy settings, University of Melbourne ...

If higher education felt left out of the election, how about VET? VET needs “its own Bradley review” to avoid becoming the “rump” of the tertiary education sector, a University of Melbourne seminar heard last week. Associate Professor Leesa Wheelahan ...

Canada, Britain and the UK may lure away our international students – but not because we’ve clamped down on skilled migration. Suggestions that Australia will lose students to the UK, Canada or the US have been exaggerated, according to international ...

With both politicians and universities in furious disagreement, caps – on places as well as fees – remain as contentious as ever. With a funding crisis precipitated by a looming dive in international enrolments – and exacerbated by uncertainty over ...

Both major parties need to rethink their national rollouts of training facilities, according to Victoria’s peak TAFE body. Neither Labor’s Trade Training Centres (TTCs) nor the Coalition’s Australian Technical Colleges (ATCs) will work well in isolation, according to the Victorian ...

A political culture of “followership” means the sector will have to reboot reform itself. The higher education sector will have to take it on itself to overcome the “policy paralysis” induced by indecisive politicians – and an indecisive electorate – ...