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A few weeks ago John Dawkins, the John the Baptist of higher education, dusted off his speaking shoes for a rare public appearance. He chose the University of Canberra for a presentation about the good old days when he changed ...

With future funding now flagged for student services and amenities, an ideological argument over unionism is giving way to jibes over who best runs student services. Youth minister Kate Ellis announced last week that universities would be allowed to set ...

The National Union of Students (NUS) has asked education minister Julia Gillard to investigate the charges Australian universities levy for undergraduate course materials, after Queensland University of Technology (QUT) was found to have breached the Higher Education Provider Guidelines. The ...

Youth minister Kate Ellis tried to defuse the polarising issue of compulsory unionism in her response to VSU, by drawing a line between student representation and student services. Ellis stressed that her changes wouldn’t be a return to compulsory student ...

The Education Investment Fund (EIF) and other major federal infrastructure funding schemes face a dark future, after Treasurer Wayne Swan last week cast strong doubts on whether they’d receive the extra allocations foreshadowed in this year’s budget. Releasing the Mid-Year ...

Training in NSW would suffer if the state’s TAFE structure was broken up into autonomous institutions, according to the former federal shadow education minister and current chair of the TAFE Commission Board, Michael Lee. Lee, a rising Labor star before ...

Last week’s decision by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission – which denied the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) permission to conduct a ballot of Victoria University staff – will also prevent the union from disrupting end-of-year exams at VU and ...

Regrets, he’s had a few. Perhaps the biggest was the failure of his landmark reforms to produce the institutional diversity that the Bradley review is now pursuing, the former federal education minister and treasurer, John Dawkins, revealed during a rare ...

Core VET funding will flow to states and territories regardless of progress in market reform, according to the head of the COAG sub-group on skills development. Chris Eccles, chair of the skills and workforce development sub-group of COAG’s productivity agenda ...

The states are yet to decide how they’ll respond to the COAG consultation paper on VET reform, including its contentious market redesign proposals. Queensland’s Department of Education, Training and the Arts told Campus Review it hadn’t finalised its decisions. The ...