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A program designed to get regional and research-intensive universities working together is hitby a lack of definition. The federal government needs first to define what a regional university is and what is meant by less research-intensive before the nuts and ...

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 ...

VET courses do more for unemployed people with disabilities than for other unemployed people, according to a new study. People who have disabilities do much worse in the labour market than people who don’t. That’s one of the unsurprising conclusions ...

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 ...

Most of the challenges Australia faces have their roots in poor educational experiences. We need to invest in a new approach that recognises the multitude of skills children need to thrive in a modern society, writes Elaine Henry. There is ...

COAG has vowed to lift its game, with improvements in VET performance between 2009 and 2020. But new data reveals the magnitude of the improvements required. VET will have to improve its performance markedly to meet the COAG targets, the ...

Is it possible to rank VET teachers’ skills and knowledge, asks John Mitchell. There are moves afoot to define teaching standards for all school teachers in Australia, so the question follows as to whether standards can be set for VET ...

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!” ...

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A tougher approvals regime that has doubled the refusal rate for student visa applications. The proportion of student visa applications rejected by the immigration department has risen steeply, as tougher processing measures introduced last year by the immigration department begin ...