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Online intro Tasmania has upgraded its own version of the training guarantee, pledging government-supported places for all retrenched workers. Tasmania has taken a leaf out of the book of its northern neighbour, guaranteeing government-funded VET places for young people and ...

Vocational training may not provide much of a springboard for meeting the new higher education targets, with unmet demand rising in government-supported VET. Unmet demand in the government-funded VET sector rose by over 10 per cent in 2008, as funding ...

Western Australia is backing away from the TAFE brand, with the name discarded by four of its ten institutes. Western Australia is progressively removing the name TAFE from its public training system, as the state’s institutes respond to their training ...

Australia needs better research before it can put together a cogent response to the crisis in international education Strategies to deal with the crisis in international education are being developed in a research vacuum, according to two Melbourne experts on ...

Victorian TAFEs want a stop to new private VET colleges, and more support when they rescue students from failed colleges. Victorian TAFEs have distanced themselves from the troubled private VET sector, calling for a moratorium on new providers and demanding ...

A private Sydney college at the centre of a damning corruption inquiry is one of at least nine recently failed providers that registered with the Productivity Places Program. A private Sydney college at the centre of a damning corruption inquiry ...

Australian universities don’t even make the top 100 in the latest global rankings, which rate institutions according to their web presence. Australian universities may punch above their weight in global rankings such as the Times Higher Education-QS and Shanghai Jiao ...

A new qualification may be needed to help distinguish extremely high-level scholarship from ‘garden variety’ doctorates. Australia may need a new high-level doctorate qualification to help make sense of its crowded and confused PhD landscape, according to researchers from Southern ...

Changes to the apprenticeship system are a “quantum leap” in training reform. VET figures have welcomed COAG’s decision to reform Australia’s apprenticeship system in line with recommendations from the Australian Apprentices Taskforce. Announcing the changes early last month, COAG said ...

Enrolments from Saudi Arabia – Australia’s tenth-biggest and second-fastest growing market for international students – appear unlikely to be permanently affected by the delisting of Australia as a destination for students who have won prestigious Saudi government scholarships.nglish. DEEWR said ...