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There are mixed signs from Australia’s first large-scale move into demand-driven tertiary education. Diploma and advanced diploma enrolments have slumped in Victorian TAFEs as the settings for the state’s VET reforms clash with its goals of increasing tertiary education participation ...

Deliberate over-enrolling, an enhanced web presence and the biggest advertising and marketing campaign in its history failed to prevent a major slump in diploma and advanced diploma enrolments at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), according to a staff memo ...

Franchises may be a good option for TAFEs wanting to deliver degrees. Franchising arrangements may be the most promising collaboration model for TAFEs and universities, given that TAFEs are being excluded from the demand-driven funding system for higher education, according ...

Collective compact negotiations would defeat the purpose, academics argue. Academics have given a lukewarm response to a recommendation that the Victorian government become involved in university compact negotiations “to ensure that the needs of the state are considered”. The expert ...

Let’s consider letting non-permanent residents sign up for apprenticeships, says the shadow training minister. Australia should consider allowing migrants and overseas students to become apprentices, according to shadow training minister Mathias Cormann. “It would help ensure that training delivered to ...

There are mixed signs from Australia’s first large-scale move into demand-driven tertiary education. Diploma and advanced diploma enrolments have slumped in Victorian TAFEs, as the settings for the state’s VET reforms clash with its goals of increasing tertiary education participation ...

Franchises may be a good option for TAFEs wanting to deliver degrees. Franchising arrangements may be the most promising collaboration model for TAFEs and universities, given that TAFEs are being excluded from the demand-driven funding system for higher education, according ...

Collective compact negotiations would defeat the purpose, academics argue. Academics have given a lukewarm response to a recommendation that the Victorian government become involved in university compact negotiations “to ensure that the needs of the state are considered”. The expert ...

Austrade and AEI are targeting the upper end of the international education market by sending Australian researchers to top-end European universities. Austrade may be grappling with the challenge of maintaining entry-level enrolments from key markets like India and China as ...

Every capital could have a designated centre where international students can find help, info, friends and a representative voice. The federal, state and territory governments should establish international student hubs where international students can obtain information on services and safety, ...