Skills Australia’s national workforce development strategy finds that the tertiary education teaching workforce needs its own development strategy. Julia Gillard will put the vocational education and training sector front and centre of the next stage of the education revolution if ...
More »Box Hill told it needs to be more like us: AUQA
Box Hill TAFE is a seasoned provider of higher education courses, but AUQA says it needs to alter its focus. Box Hill TAFE entered the higher education market in 2002, one of the first providers to respond to the Victorian ...
More »AIM just needs to get its house in order: AUQA
A private provider with a recent troubled past has much work to do to get to square one. When a quality audit begins with the phrase so and so is “at a challenging phase of development”, it’s code for “help!” ...
More »Ballarat stretches its boundaries as equity calls
Melton, on the far north-western reaches of outer Melbourne, is the heartland of the federal government’s higher education equity push. The statistics paint the picture: low Year 12 completion rates, low education and training participation rates, by and large low ...
More »International links benefit hospitality college
A hospitality provider comes through its AUQA audit with flying colours. The Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School (BMIHMS) and its sister campus the Australian International Hotel School (AIHS) are the two parts of a small, elite, internationally recognised provider ...
More »Philanthropist builds sustainable future at Bond
A large donation will see Bond University become Australia’s 19th university to offer an architectural degree. A significant donation to Bond University will fund the establishment of a new faculty of architecture. The Soheil Abedian School of Architecture will open ...
More »AIPS goes for growth, but AUQA suggests caution
A specialist provider is cautioned about its expansion plans. A Melbourne-based private higher education provider with a range of VET and higher education programs in public safety, occupational health and safety and criminal justice came under the scrutiny of the ...
More »Food and the art of representation
Both CAPA and the NUS are being headed by students hailing from the University of Melbourne. I am what I eat. You are what I feed you,” Tammi Jonas’s bio on Twitter asserts. When the new president of the Council ...
More »Be careful what you wish for: more regulation on the cards
Improved regulation and performance measures are largely welcome, but the spectre of increased government interference is a likely consequence. Regulation and government intervention are likely to increase with the advent of a new national regulator, compacts and performance funding, despite ...
More »First standards to be assessed by end of year
Work on academic standards is going ahead in leaps and bounds with the first standards ready to be reviewed by the end of the year. Accounting looks like being the first cab off the rank to have minimum standards set ...
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