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The higher your qualification, the more you’re likely to earn. That’s the unremarkable conclusion of a decade-long study of the educational and occupational fortunes of around 10,000 Australians born in the early 1980s. But if the results of the landmark ...

Vocational qualifications may not produce the same career and financial benefits as degrees, according to the latest longitudinal study from the Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER – see **link to ACER story**). But the latest student outcome survey shows ...

A nationally run vocational education and training system – widely considered as desirable, but politically unfeasible – is now on the cards, with the Bradley review panel calling for the federal government to assume full responsibility for regulating all post-school ...

Student demand-driven funding is emerging as the most contentious of Denise Bradley’s broad reform proposals, with some commentators claiming the approach would hurt less established universities and wouldn’t be sufficiently responsive to workforce needs. But others say Bradley had no ...

Education is about fairness,” then opposition leader Kevin Rudd told the Melbourne Education Research Institute in January last year, marking out a battleground in the forthcoming election. “Australia now needs an education revolution.” Upon which he launched a directions paper ...

The list of masters by coursework programs whose students are able to apply for youth allowance and Austudy was extended last week. The new list adds 86 courses to the 312 approved last year. It now contains almost 400 masters ...

Public good has been reinstated as a key objective of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program, under new guidelines revealed by innovation minister Kim Carr when he announced the latest CRC funding round late last month. Carr said the new-look ...

While HECS-style loans are being proposed for everybody from drought-stricken farmers to budding athletes, a parliamentary committee wants them converted into donations. HECS debts should be waived for successful research postgraduates in order to encourage students to choose research instead ...

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) outlined future VET funding arrangements during its last meeting of the year, with the Commonwealth, states and territories signing off on a $6.7 billion national skills and workforce development agreement to replace specific purpose ...

For the first time a TAFE institute has received approval to offer nursing degrees, potentially opening the door to more VET providers in the high-demand profession, and removing yet another brick from the wall dividing VET and higher education. Holmesglen ...