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Swinburne’s new articulation arrangements owe as much to the new demand-driven system as its bridge-building ethos. The federal government’s new higher education (HE) funding framework has converged with curriculum design to make institution-wide articulation a practical possibility at Swinburne University ...

Swinburne’s new academic board will sit comfortably with the emerging tertiary architecture. Swinburne University of Technology has revealed plans to establish a single academic board for its higher education and TAFE divisions, bringing it in line with Victoria’s other three ...

UA has gone into bat for VET as well as universities, saying a relatively modest tertiary education funding hike could make Australia’s pay packet 8 per cent bigger by 2040. The federal government can discourage the re-emergence of a two-speed ...

Morality has tangled roots, millennia-deep, sourced in pre-Christian philosophers such as the ancient Greeks Socrates and Aristotle who wondered what we wonder still: What is justice? How should we act in any given situation? What are the consequences of our ...

So where does the Liberal Party stand on higher education? Not too far from where it stood three years ago, writes Julie Hare. It’s an election year and the Opposition took the opportunity to expound its higher education policy at ...

Teachers aren’t the only source of future efficiencies in VET, says John Mitchell. The recently announced review of the VET workforce by the Productivity Commission will be a critical research project with its focus on trainers and assessors. However, productivity ...

Australia needs to think laterally, and explore what’s happening overseas, to find new ways of encouraging people to sign up for apprenticeships – and then stick with them. Income-contingent loans, tax rebates, tax credits, industry levies and even early access ...

I have just returned from Queensland where researchers Stephen Billett and Sarojni Choy co-convened the 13th Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association conference. topical issue of apprentice training; the second the issue of building research capability; the third the ...

ACPET has brandished two reports to support its push for inclusion in demand-driven higher education funding. But some of their claims need fleshing out. John Ross reports. Private higher education providers will need to be brought into the demand-driven system ...