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Low training wages could be one reason why so many apprentices and trainees don’t complete – but what about the wages after they’ve completed? Many apprentices and trainees can expect to secure a substantial “wage premium” by completing their structured ...

While it’s important to expose the headline cases of research fraud, education is also needed to rein in lesser cases. Marginally unethical research behaviour is on the rise, and the federal government’s new research integrity body won’t do much to ...

The Victorian TAFE Association has called for a softening of the state government’s punitive eligibility criteria which reserve government-funded VET places for people undertaking progressively higher level qualifications.uffering. “For example, many people wantingto become librarians have already done a base ...

A shift to more skilled migrants could leave little for local education and training providers, according to a top economic commentator. Migrants will become competitors more than customers of education and training institutions if the balance of skilled migration policy ...

It’s all very well to wish for more postgraduate research students, but what do we know about those we’ve already got? The world needs a research agenda around widening its research agenda, a South Australia-based research expert told the Quality ...

Australia’s economy is going gang-busters again, but some sectors are continuing to slide – with implications for training. Australia is poised to rediscover the boom conditions of early 2008, but some sections of the economy – notably manufacturing – have ...

Group training has to think big, according to John Buchanan. The group training model should be extended beyond trade apprenticeships to professions such as engineering and medicine, an industrial relations expert told last week’s Group Training national conference in Adelaide. ...

Income-contingent loans need to be simple and well understood. But if Victoria’s TAFE experience is anything to go by we can’t assume students will sign up for them anyway. The ability of income-contingent loans to help encourage tertiary education participation ...

It’s publish or perish, more than ever, and the co-editor of a new book on the subject says it’s raising big challenges. The ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) is exerting unprecedented pressure to publish, and it’s causing headaches for ...

Increased fees, coupled with income-contingent loans, could be the only way forward for a stretched TAFE sector, writes John Ross. The Victorian government’s skills reforms are copping plenty of stick from the community, mostly over TAFE fee hikes. “Whatever happened ...