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Should individual institutions be funded to deliver social inclusion programs, asks John Mitchell. One of the clear messages from the Bradley review of higher education was the need for tertiary education providers to address equity issues, such as the exclusion ...

Business as usual for NZ provider A NZ-based company linked to the Global Campus Management (GCM) group says its local colleges are not threatened by the collapse of GCM’s Australian operations. GCM ran four colleges across 13 campuses in Sydney ...

Non-completion in a recession can be disastrous for the apprentice, but the main issue for governments should be falling commencements. Australia may have dodged the recession bullet that has felled most other advanced economies. Apprentice and trainee numbers too seem ...

UK to slash VET spending A leaked document shows the British government plans to cut $A630 million from its 2010-11 training budget, reports The Observer. The newspaper has obtained a confidential memo detailing preferred options for slashing the $7 billion skills ...

At least 2700 international students have been affected by the collapse of another large private provider. At least 2700 international students, including high school students in the middle of their final exams, have been sidelined by the collapse of another ...

Monash University has announced plans for major expansion to help meet federal government social equity targets Australia’s largest university Monash has unveiled plans to dramatically increase its student enrolments by 11,000 students – or nearly 20 per cent – over ...

Toby Miller watches helplessly as the once-proud University of California system crumbles to its knees. The phones are being turned off. The garbage is no longer being removed from offices. Student fees are rumoured to be going up by 35 ...

Embedding gender inclusiveness in engineering curricula is critical to the long-term solution to attracting and retaining women to the study of engineering, writes Linda Belardi. Inclusive curriculum principles in engineering would not only cause the reevaluation of course content, but ...

The professionalisation of the workforce is throwing out new challenges to VET. But is it keeping up, asks Tom Karmel. One of the eternal verities is that the workforce is continually changing. Structural change is ever present, with both labour ...

Regulatory impediments in China and India have kept a lid on offshore enrolments from the two Asian giants. But all that is about to change, writes John Ross. A recent regulatory shake-up in China is helping turn the East Asian ...