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ACPET will introduce risk profiling to its tuition assistance scheme – provided the Baird review doesn’t introduce a replacement scheme. Just a few weeks before the Baird review hands down its recommendations, which are likely to include a revamp of ...

While this month’s migration reforms grabbed the headlines, changes made over a year ago had already transformed the occupational profile of skilled migrants – and the colleges that train them. Cooks, accountants and hairdressers have given way to engineers, nurses, ...

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 ...

RMIT has fallen foul of workplace laws for failing to pay an on-call allowance to a security officer. RMIT University has been fined $13,000 for breaking workplace laws and ordered to pay a former employee over $91,000 in back pay ...

Yale president Richard Levin says the rise of Asian universities will give the west a run for its money. The unprecedented investment in higher education in China is a “positive sum game” for universities in the western elite. Richard C ...

Workforce data for VET lags way behind what’s available on higher education, with studies offering vastly different estimates of how many people work in the sector. While TAFEs provide 70 per cent or more of VET in Australia, a new ...

Will a tertiary sector impact positively on VET practitioners, asks John Mitchell. There is a light flickering on the horizon that offers a way out of some tangled debates in VET. That light is the emerging tertiary system in Australia, ...

The New Zealand government is taking aim at lazy students and courses with high dropout or failure rates in looming reforms in tertiary education. Prime Minister John Key said last week there were "increasingly urgent problems" in tertiary education, pointing ...

Winners from the proposed Youth Allowance changes would outnumber the losers in every electorate – especially poor and regional ones – while rich urban electorates would see a scholarship bonanza. The people who benefit from the government’s proposed income support ...

English language schools and universities can gain from last week’s shake-up of the skilled migration program – so long as they reset the bar. VET will be the loser from the changes to general skilled migration announced last week. But ...