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The peak body for independent training and tertiary providers and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry have helped introduce measures to protect the government’s new Boosting Apprenticeship Commencements scheme from rorting. Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA) CEO Troy ...

It’s the big question facing all Victorian universities right now: will international students return in 2021, and to what extent? The state’s International Education Advisory Council (IEAC) was disbanded nearly two months ago, and in June a five-year international education ...

University of Newcastle staff want more detail on plans to cut courses and amalgamate faculties. In addition, an academic at the university has claimed “there is no trust in university management”, despite reassurances given by a university spokesperson that consultations ...

Teachers are concerned the future of Australia’s arts and entertainment industry looks bleak as theatre courses are cut across the country. Triggered by staff redundancies and course cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two well-regarded theatre and drama degrees have ...

A nationally representative sample of 1001 Australians aged 18 and over found that 94 per cent of respondents believed federal TAFE funding was important for the post-recession rebuild and recovery. The question put to online respondents was: how important is ...

Some of Australia’s vocational education and training providers are worried that the government’s new scheme to subsidise 100,000 trainees and apprentices is at risk of being rorted. The concerns relate to employers and training organisations potentially using the scheme to ...

Top economists have warned that university graduates this year will face the toughest labour market since the 1990s recession, and it may take years to recover from lower wages. More than 130,000 students are expected to be affected by the ...

While the proliferation of online news, social media feeds and websites such as Google have made information more accessible than ever before, it has also created fertile grounds for both misinformation and disinformation to spread – and quickly. But now ...

Another wage scandal has rocked the higher education sector, with the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) beginning proceedings against private higher education provider JMC Academy in the federal court. The NTEU is alleging that the academy’s “employment practices for its ...

A new inter-disciplinary database will enable researchers across the world to keep abreast of COVID’s latest developments, while also allowing them to contact lead investigators in their fields and seek resources and funding. Created by University of Birmingham experts in ...