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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 ...

A recent triumph for the Chinese University has Simon Haines wondering about genius. The Chinese University and the Hong Kong government have been celebrating the achievement of the former CUHK vice-chancellor, Charles Kao, the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize ...

Regulatory and quality assurance arrangements for higher education and VET should be as consistent as possible. But the opposite is happening, writes Leesa Wheelahan. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has decided to establish separate VET and higher education regulators, ...

How will mission-based compacts help inspire radical reform in teaching and learning, asks Kerri-Lee Krause. Mission-based compacts represent one of three pillars in the federal government’s ambitious higher education reform agenda. A second is that of standards, to be monitored ...

Both CAPA and the NUS are being headed by students hailing from the University of Melbourne. I am what I eat. You are what I feed you,” Tammi Jonas’s bio on Twitter asserts. When the new president of the Council ...

Online intro Skills Australia is considering a two-stream approach to funding VET, with companies funded directly to undertake training – and in some cases, to provide it. A proportion of national VET funding could be set aside to meet the ...

Improved regulation and performance measures are largely welcome, but the spectre of increased government interference is a likely consequence. Regulation and government intervention are likely to increase with the advent of a new national regulator, compacts and performance funding, despite ...

Work on academic standards is going ahead in leaps and bounds with the first standards ready to be reviewed by the end of the year. Accounting looks like being the first cab off the rank to have minimum standards set ...