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All government vocational education and training funding throughout Australia will become fully contestable and access for equity groups will be downplayed, under a COAG national partnership proposal currently being considered by the state, territory and federal governments. The partnership would ...

You’re 18, you’ve just left school, you know what you want to be. And you know how the tertiary education system works. You know that if you start with an advanced diploma at a vocational education and training college and ...

The Victorian TAFE Association has appealed directly to Premier John Brumby to exempt TAFEs from restrictive advertising and communication approval guidelines recently imposed on the state’s public entities. The seven-stage approval process – which can delay ads, brochures and communication ...

Victoria’s VET reform is based on questionable assumptions and offers as many risks as opportunities, according to the head of the state’s second-largest TAFE institute. Virginia Simmons, CEO of Chisholm Institute of TAFE, told a Canberra conference last month that ...

Mission-based compacts should have a complementary rather than a central funding role, the Group of Eight believes, with their main functions to encourage community engagement and knowledge transfer and to broaden access to higher education. The Go8 wants to see ...

Bureaucratic obstacles, real and imagined, are keeping international graduates from jobs in an economy supposedly riddled with skill shortages. The anomaly is threatening the viability of Australia’s biggest export service industry while squandering a skilled labour pool of around half ...

Vocational training has assumed a central role in the federal government’s economic crisis response, with $187 million of the budget surplus allocated to create yet another 56,000 training places and elevate the investment in the Productivity Places Program to $2 ...

The federal government takes every opportunity to talk up its Productivity Places Program (PPP). “In just over six months, more than 53,000 jobseekers have enrolled in the program, with 43,200 in training and over 11,000 having completed training,” education minister ...

Most countries can afford to be optimistic about the prospects for their international education industries despite the turmoil in financial markets, according to IDP research head Melissa Banks. OECD data over the three decades from 1975 shows continuing growth in ...

Australia’s international education sector may not only survive, but flourish in the global economic turmoil. By John Ross.   Higher education figures are cautiously – in some cases, keenly – optimistic that the economic crisis won’t torpedo student demand or ...