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The federal government has announced a $100 million investment to support apprenticeships this summer, on the back of findings that trade apprenticeship commencements have slumped 20 per cent as a result of the global financial crisis. The ‘Apprentice Kickstart’ program ...

A mutual recognition agreement involving French and Australian universities won’t force either country to accept the other’s qualifications – but it’ll help clear some of the hurdles, according to educationalists from both countries. French higher education attaché Béatrice Chassaing said ...

The proportion of disengaged teenagers has risen sharply, reversing four years of steady improvement, with the global financial crisis wreaking havoc among some of Australia’s most vulnerable. The 2009 ‘How young people are faring’ report, from the Foundation for Young ...

Australian awards for university teachings year, 24 university teachers across Australia will receive awards for teaching excellence, with a further 12 awards for programs that enhance learning. The premier university teaching award, the $50,000 Prime Minister’s award for Australian university ...

When the Think: education group was founded, it set itself a lofty ambition: “to create a new category in Australian education – a credible alternative to universities and TAFE colleges”. That has earned praise for Think:’s “distinctive vision, mission and ...

Janaki Bahadur thinks Australia ought to have seen the warning signs earlier. India’s media hysteria over attacks on Indian students in Australia was just waiting to happen, she says. Bahadur, a journalist who divides her time between New Delhi and ...

We’re repeatedly told international education is vitally important to Australia’s economy and balance of payments. We know too that the two-way student exchanges enhance intercultural understanding, here and overseas. Now a new Universities Australia report suggests international education is deeply ...

Are student complaints an indication of underlying problems? Or are they the inevitable result of a user-pays/user-says system, asks Joseph Gora. “I have received a number of complaints from students saying that you have not been contactable in person or ...

Industry bodies must not be sidelined from the efforts to resolve international education’s problems, writes Dennis Murray. Governments are nothing if not reactive. Not a day goes by without a new decision or initiative or overseas peacemaking visit announced by ...

New taskforce to plan workforce needs for resource projects The federal government has formed a ‘national resource sector employment taskforce’ to examine workforce needs for about 80 major resource projects anticipated over the next decade. The taskforce – which will ...