Campus Review The latest in higher education news

Targets to increase qualification numbers are all very well, but we also need a target to ensure they’re used more effectively, according to Skills Australia.en and 25-34 year old women. Participation is also relatively low among 55-64 year olds of ...

Public and private peak bodies both say funding arrangements and jurisdictional differences are damaging the PPP. Most TAFEs and many private VET providers say funding rates under the Productivity Places Program (PPP) are too low to cover quality courses, according ...

One in five international VET colleges are on the nose, according to a “guesstimate” from ESOS reviewer Bruce Baird. No one disagrees there’s some dodgy international VET colleges in Australia, but there’s dispute over how many. A few bad apples, ...

The Baird report offers solutions for Meridian and GEOS-type collapses, as well as low-rent hospitality and hairdressing colleges. The consumer protection fund that finds alternative placements for displaced international students could also be used to temporarily prop up their colleges, ...

German higher education is provincial towns is thriving, writes Christina Slade. Although one can imagine it as the perfect setting for a John le Carré novel, Bielefeld is not really a small town: it has a population of around 330,000, ...

VET courses do more for unemployed people with disabilities than for other unemployed people, according to a new study. People who have disabilities do much worse in the labour market than people who don’t. That’s one of the unsurprising conclusions ...

COAG has vowed to lift its game, with improvements in VET performance between 2009 and 2020. But new data reveals the magnitude of the improvements required. VET will have to improve its performance markedly to meet the COAG targets, the ...

A tougher approvals regime that has doubled the refusal rate for student visa applications. The proportion of student visa applications rejected by the immigration department has risen steeply, as tougher processing measures introduced last year by the immigration department begin ...

It’s taken six months to pass a Bill that seemed to have the Opposition’s blessings, and it’s going to take another three before the details become clear. Some 1300 colleges, universities and schools will have to reregister under tougher criteria ...

The government has committed $5.1 million to top up the ESOS Assurance Fund – just days before the expected release of the Baird review of the ESOS Act, which may recommend wholesale changes to assurance arrangements for overseas students. The ...