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Education minister Julia Gillard’s vision for “cohesive” post-school education, outlined at this month’s Big Skills conference, goes most of the way towards realising the integrated tertiary education system recommended by Denise Bradley. Gillard said she’d work with the states and ...

In the lead-up to the May budget – and the government’s substantive responses to the Bradley and Cutler reviews – the NTEU held three public seminars in Canberra in two days, as well as launching its new workforce development program. ...

Now’s a great time for Australian universities to expand because the likely contraction of other countries’ university systems will create rare recruitment opportunities, according to the director of the National Institute of Labour Studies at Flinders University. Professor Sue Richardson ...

Student representatives and the online activist group GetUp – a thorn in the Howard Government’s side in the lead-up to the last federal election – don’t think the Rudd Government’s response to voluntary student unionism (VSU) gives enough say to ...

The two key structural changes to higher education announced last week by education minister Julia Gillard – a student entitlement funding system and a national regulatory and quality agency – will relieve some of the main “pressure points” in the ...

Having already committed itself to a virtually unlimited number of vocational training places, the Victorian Government will now commit to over 100,000 more under a special deal which will see the Victorian Training Guarantee effectively merged with the federal government’s ...

If Denise Bradley was worried what the federal government thought about her panel’s recommendations to reform higher education, she would have been reassured by education minister Julia Gillard’s speech at the Universities Australia (UA) higher education conference in Canberra last ...

NSW has signed up for the first time to the Productivity Places Program, with the Commonwealth and state governments jointly committing $620 million to establish 175,000 new training places for unemployed people and workers who want to improve their qualifications. ...

TAFEs are virtually excluded from the federal government’s $2 billion Productivity Places Program (PPP), with 98 per cent of jobseeker enrolments in the flagship vocational training program going to private training providers. The federal education department told Campus Review that ...

The Bradley report’s recommendations can deliver the egalitarian higher education system the government says it wants, a national equity forum in Adelaide heard last week. But cultural change will be just as important as funding boosts, equity experts said. The ...