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VET will buddy up with higher education (HE) to help make Denise Bradley’s integrated tertiary sector a reality, predicts Philip Bullock, chair of Skills Australia. But VET’s main players may struggle to integrate with each other, Bullock told a Sydney ...

While academics often dismiss TAFE as a low-status alternative to university, new research suggests TAFE staff can be equally dismissive of university education – with both views often based on decades-old perceptions rather than present-day realities. Research into higher education ...

The tertiary education rank will become less important as a university entry gatekeeper in the post-Bradley world. And people who work in tertiary admissions centres (TACs) should start sprucing up their CVs, according to the vice-chancellor of Swinburne University, Professor ...

Private higher education will proliferate as a result of the major policy changes stemming from the Bradley review, along with the federal government’s decision to do away with full fee-paying domestic undergraduate places, according to University of Technology Sydney vice-chancellor ...

Cuts announced early last week to Australia’s skilled migration program could cost Australia tens of thousands of international enrolments, particularly in the fast-growing vocational education and training (VET) sector. Dr Bob Birrell, co-director of Monash University’s Centre for Population and ...

The federal government is changing the guidelines for its apprenticeship rescue package, amid fears that the program is too rigid to save apprentices’ jobs. But some training figures still fear the package isn’t flexible enough to prevent redundancies. Last month ...

Australia needs a minister for international education to give its third-biggest export industry some Cabinet-level coordination and clout, according to the founding president of the International Education Association of Australia, Professor Tony Adams. Adams, now a consultant, told last week’s ...

A marked improvement in indigenous Year 12 retention rates, revealed in an Australian Bureau of Statistics report, is seen as a good sign for indigenous participation in higher education. But equity experts warn that the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous ...

Australian education administrators will need to be both cautious and flexible to weather the global financial storm, according to an Access Economics presentation to last week’s International Education Roundtable in Canberra. Access Economics macroeconomist Chris Richardson told the roundtable that ...

Higher education administrators will have to wait for the May budget, compact negotiations and internal accounting exercises before they can expect a clear picture of where research funding is headed. Speaking at last week’s Australian Financial Review higher education conference, ...