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With its straw polls and ‘gotcha’ moments, the media is killing debate, a Canberra policy forum heard last week. The nature of modern media and the desire of academics and other advocates to speak freely are coming together in a ...

The federal government is upbeat about the prospects for a genuinely national system of VET regulation, after the NVR legislation narrowly passed parliament. The government has successfully steered its national vocational regulator (NVR) bills through both houses of parliament, after ...

With all eyes on the legislation to set up the new VET regulator, training ministers have quietly axed the organisation that was expected to house the VET standards agency. The week before the federal government managed by a hair’s breadth ...

The NVR experience provides lessons for the federal government’s next shot at grabbing state powers – over health, for example. The federal government might have secured the peak TAFE bodies’ support for its legislative program to establish a national VET ...

The ERA has given universities a chance to find out how well they’re doing on indigenous research – so long as they’re researching the indigenous culture of New Zealand. Last year’s Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) exercise didn’t give universities ...

Ballarat hasn’t waited for foreign university legislation to get through before announcing a new partnership operation in India. Australia has taken the next tentative step into the Indian higher education market, with the University of Ballarat announcing plans to establish ...

Visa sub-classes for different educational sectors are counter-productive, according to the head of a Brisbane-based international education group. Australia must stop playing favourites with educational sectors in its treatment of would-be international students, a private college chief told a Melbourne ...

“Unexamined racial prejudice” is keeping indigenous Australians out of academic jobs, according to IHEAC’s chief. Australian universities are hideaways of “hegemonic racism” where merit-based human resources processes can be “systematically undermined by the unexamined prejudices of decision makers”, according to ...

Immigration officers have discretion to be mean, but not to be nice, according to the Knight review. The Knight review into the student visa program has floated the idea of giving officers from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) ...

The government has rewarded the powerful mining industry for failing to train its own people, according to an economist and skills expert. Just 10 months after the Labor government tried to slug the resource sector with a $12 billion super ...