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The Bradley report’s calls for massive funding boosts may hit a road block in the Canberra bureaucracy because finance officials are believed to be unconcerned by the level of cross-subsidisation. Bradley’s big-ticket recommendations – a four-year $1.8 billion increase in ...

The federal government says bonus payments under its stimulus package will now be available to all students following negotiations with the Greens. Treasurer Wayne Swan told Greens leader Senator Bob Brown that the package would include a “mechanism to ensure ...

With apprentices losing their jobs as the economy declines, the federal government has stepped in with a $145.6 million package to encourage employers to take them on again. ‘Securing Apprenticeships’ offers employers and group training organisations incentives of up to ...

The government should immediately implement the key Bradley review recommendations to increase funding for teaching, research and student income support, according to the peak university body. While more discussion is needed on fine policy detail, this shouldn’t prevent the government ...

“Thank you for the opportunity to meet with you on 27 January to discuss the government’s response to the Bradley review. Universities Australia remains strongly supportive of the review and the overall direction of its recommendations,” UA’s chair Professor Richard ...

The economic downturn has necessitated a rethink on apprenticeships, according to TAFE Directors Australia (TDA), which wants new pathways that allow people to train towards trades even if they don’t have concurrent employment. “For most traditional occupations we haven’t ever ...

The Cutler and Bradley reports have been designed to answer different questions. But they raise some questions about each other, writes John Ross. The Bradley and Cutler reviews were the two big ticket items in higher education last year, attracting ...

Tasmania’s new-look VET and senior school system is in chaos, according to the state branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU), with staff shortages, confused reporting lines and people teaching the wrong subjects. But the system’s CEOs say these are ...

Australia may have reached the end of a decade-long trend of school leavers leaning towards jobs instead of education and training, according to preliminary 2009 undergraduate application data released this month by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations ...

The future of training packages is up for discussion during a month of national consultations starting in Adelaide this week. The ‘VET Training Products for the 21st Century’ project – a comprehensive review of national VET policy, jointly run by ...