In-demand occupations could lose their special treatment status under possible changes to the skilled migration points test. Would-be migrants from the most in-demand occupational groups could find that their skills no longer give them an extra edge under changes being ...
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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 ...
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Loan fees have been canned for Australians studying overseas – but cost hikes are planned for fee-paying domestic undergraduates. Fee-paying domestic undergraduates in private institutions could find themselves paying more from July, after another Higher Education Amendment Bill was introduced ...
More »ACPET moves to overhaul its assurance regime
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 ...
More »Nurses and engineers in, cooks and hairdressers out as migration changes begin to bite
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, ...
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 »RMIT fined for workplace breach
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 ...
More »The East is rising
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 ...
More »VET workforce older, casual, better educated – and heaven knows how big
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 ...
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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, ...
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