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The Rudd government’s national broadband network will be a massive consumer of new skills which could prove to be a bonanza for the training sector. But questions as to how many training places, at what level, in what areas of ...

It depends on who you talk to, but last Wednesday’s strike was either a raging success or a quiet affair which hardly registered a blip on the radar. While the NTEU estimates 20,000 staff took industrial action affecting 400,000 students, ...

Major change is never easy, but the University of Southern Queensland has been there, done that and come out the other side with a clean bill of health, according to its Australian Universities Quality Agency audit. As AUQA notes, USQ ...

International students are overwhelmingly portrayed as victims – both here and especially in the Indian media. The general picture is of well-intentioned, hopeful, law-abiding yet hapless individuals who get done over by dodgy training providers and unscrupulous employers. But the ...

Current policies which do not provide funding for places or give students access to HECS hamper the expansion of higher education in TAFE and run counter to the government’s social inclusion agenda. A new report by a team of researchers ...

The government’s ambitious higher education completion targets have already been achieved for women, but are being hampered by men who underperform on most higher education measures when compared to their female counterparts. For the past five years, just 28 per ...

The University of Sydney is among 28 universities nationally that are a step closer to widespread industrial action on 16 September. The Sydney University branch of the National Tertiary Education Union voted in a ballot last week that could see ...

Claims that the University of Melbourne is in the process of acquiring a $250 million secret “slush fund”, which could instead be used to stop the retrenchment of 220 staff, are naïve and wrongheaded, according to a global expert in ...

All education and training providers should be ranked according to the level of service provision and not treated as equals, as under the current registration system, a senior TAFE figure has said. Last week’s public hearing into the welfare of ...

University marketers have been alert to social media as a key medium to get the message out. Ads in newspapers haven’t quite disappeared, but YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and, increasingly, Twitter are all now commonly integrated into the marketing mix.tin and ...