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VET graduate employment falls in 2009 The economic slump has seen the number of VET graduates employed after training decrease. According to the NCVER’s 2009 ‘Student outcomes survey’, 77.8 per cent of graduates were employed after training, compared to 80.7 ...

Not having a problem is a problem in the new, lean organisation, writes Ray Griffiths. There is little doubt that in a world of market contestability, user choice and uncapped funding for places, the efficiency and effectiveness of our internal ...

Last-minute bailouts have saved two ATCs, but a third hasn’t been so lucky. Uncertainty has hung over the Australian technical colleges (ATCs) until the very end, with the future of one of the colleges still unclear even though its founding ...

Two of the ambitious VET targets the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has set may be much closer to fulfilment than they realise. It all comes down to what is and isn’t counted. COAG has called for a halving of ...

Hargreaves new EA president Professor Doug Hargreaves, head of QUT’s School of Engineering Systems, is the new president of Engineers Australia, the peak organisation for 88,000 member engineers. He is a former president of Engineers Australia (Qld) and secretary of ...

On Thursday, 19 November around 10:30 pm, I noticed first one, then swarms of helicopters over the City of London just to the south of me, moving to the west. The helicopters are often out – visiting heads of state ...

Funding cuts threaten Oxford University tutorial system Oxford University will have to axe its prized tutorial system if the government pushes ahead with funding cuts, a report has warned. Foreshadowed cuts to higher education of will be reduced by $320 ...

Universities are increasingly collaborating in shared data centres. It doesn’t just make economic sense, writes Beverley Head. In just a few weeks, three Victorian universities will take up their positions in a new data centre in Melbourne’s Noble Park. It ...

The paucity of women in the sciences is contributing to the fragility of Australia’s scientific knowledge and skills base, but could be the key to rebuilding it, reports Jeremy Gilling. Women are making strong progress in most areas of academia ...