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TAFE institutes need to participate constructively in debates about VET reform – rather than acting as “blockers” – and TAFE boards need to give their CEOs the “moral authority” to engage in that public policy debate, according to Swinburne University ...

The director’s fees paid to TAFE board members need to be raised substantially, according to shareholder activist Stephen Mayne.

The federal government has confirmed that TAFEs and private providers are to be excluded from the entitlement-based higher education system, at least for the time being. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations said the government intended to limit ...

Pay isn’t the deal-breaker in enterprise bargaining negotiations, National Tertiary Education Union officials said after a day of coordinated strikes in Victoria and Tasmania. Ongoing delays in enterprise bargaining negotiations were behind the day of actions, the union said. So ...

The federal government’s Productivity Places Program (PPP) is geared towards funding an astronomical 711,000 training places over the next four years. But if you’ve been thinking this means 711,000 people, you’re sadly mistaken. According to the ‘National Partnership Agreement on ...

One of the welcome surprises of the federal budget was its acceptance of all of the Bradley report’s student income support recommendations, and with only limited modifications. The Bradley recommendations had been widely praised, and income support had been considered ...

A little over a year ago, Australia’s higher education community could have been excused for greeting the latest higher education review with scepticism. With a history of reviews leading to little significant reform, the sector mightn’t have been thrilled by ...

Does the higher education budget live up to the hype, asks John Ross. Reduce expectations, then over-deliver. It’s a good business strategy. And it’s good budget strategy too, if you happen to be in government. For the second year running, ...

The federal government will replace the Institutional Grants Scheme, establish a new “hubs and spokes” funding program and move towards covering universities’ indirect research costs, in a major revamp of university research funding. The reforms will shift the emphasis to ...

TAFEs and private higher education providers will be excluded from the government’s new demand-driven higher education funding system, budget documents suggest. The papers indicate that the “new system for the 21st century”, which is supposed to let students choose where ...