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Training was front and centre in the federal budget. But the opposition left it behind the dead ball line. VET was given top billing in the federal budget, with the government highlighting its so-called $3 billion training package as the ...

Labor claims universities have reaped a $3 billion windfall since it took office. But a higher education analyst says its projections are misleading. Federal spending on higher education is about $3 billion more than it would have been if the ...

New NCVER modelling has revised trade apprentice completion rates upwards. But the rates still aren’t good – and they’re virtually unchanged in non-trades areas like administration and sales. Apprenticeship completion rates in trade and technical fields are about a quarter ...

A budget reduction to early HECS repayment incentives – unexpected, unlike the halving of the up-front payment discount – will help the government save almost half a billion dollars. On top of the halving of the 20 per cent discount ...

This wasn’t really VET’s year, budget papers suggest. The federal government nominated its $3 billion Building Australia’s future workforcepackage as the centrepiece of last week’s budget. But an analysis of budget commitments suggests the real VET windfall was somewhere between $255 ...

Student demand and industry demand aren’t the same thing. In May 2009, with the Bradley report still warm from the presses, the Rudd government’s second budget heralded a “new era” for universities. “This reform will ensure universities cater to the ...

Independence – and how to define it – has emerged as a key issue for the income support review. Arguments about dependent and independent Youth Allowance would become a thing of the past, and almost all students would become eligible ...

All VET providers – not just private colleges – should be more transparent, says Skills Australia. Private VET providers would be forced to divulge full details of their services and success rates, and TAFEs would have to boost their transparency, ...

Victorian VET was happy with last week’s state budget, but a renowned legal figure has attacked the state’s eligibility rules. Victoria’s Higher Education and Skills Minister, Peter Hall, has kept the faith with the state’s VET sector, with the state ...

Last week Chris Evans hinted this could be VET’s year, as far as budget allocations are concerned. And Victoria has beaten the Commonwealth to the punch, with a budget that all but ignores universities In what could be a foretaste ...