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Rampant demand for VET in Victoria may not be all it seems Enrolments have skyrocketed in what’s currently Australia’s only fully demand-driven tertiary education system, sounding a cautionary note for a federal government that’s committed to a demand-driven system for ...

Victoria’s fully competitive training system is fostering dubious claims, and experts warn the problems could run far deeper. A Victorian education agent has enticed companies to enrol their workers in four-day government-funded diploma courses by suggesting they can make a ...

The government has claimed credit for record student numbers. But the latest figures suggest the labour market was the main driver of a 17-year spike in university applications last year - and of this year's much more modest growth. The ...

Seven days out from this year's federal budget - an anorexic one, if government pre-commentary can be believed - a de-facto Bradley report on VET will warn the government not to fatten up training on the cheap. A week before ...

More disadvantaged students applied for university last year. But not enough, according to the experts. Newly released DEEWR statistics suggest universities are making progress towards the government’s equity target, with the proportion of low socioeconomic status (SES) applicants increasing a ...

"Historical fixes" shouldn't govern how much university students contribute to their own education, says UA. Australia should move beyond an "arbitrary" approach to tuition fees and apply basic principles to decide just how much private funders - including students - ...

Recently released financial statements show why international education's backup consumer protection fund needed a $30 million backup in loans. The backup consumer protection mechanism for international students, the ESOS Assurance Fund, was almost $8 million in the red before the ...

The change in government in NSW - traditionally the state most resistant to VET market reforms - has unleashed a private-public brawl. The peak private training body has moved fast to cash in on the change of government in NSW, ...

The ACT government has left the door open for what could become the nation’s fifth or even sixth dual-sector university. The ACT government has accepted some of the recommendations of its Tertiary Education Taskforce, which called for Canberra to reinvent ...

Views on fees are many, varied and firmly entrenched, writes John Ross. It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that tuition fees have been the most hotly contested issue in submissions to the base funding review. Camped behind well-worn ...