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All education and training providers should be ranked according to the level of service provision and not treated as equals, as under the current registration system, a senior TAFE figure has said. Last week’s public hearing into the welfare of ...

VET apprentice and trainee commencements in the March quarter were down nearly 8 per cent on the corresponding period in 2008, with commencements in the traditional trades falling dramatically by 21.9 per cent. The latest apprentice and trainee data from ...

German PhD scandal German prosecutors are investigating over 100 senior academics at a dozen of the country’s top universities on suspicion that they awarded doctorates to hundreds of mediocre or unqualified students after taking bribes from a firm of educational ...

The University of Phoenix’s parent company has taken a toehold in the UK market, writes Lucy Hodges. A huge, private, US higher education company has established a foothold in the UK market. Apollo Global has just paid £303 million ($590 ...

The Greens have called for an Australian student card to be introduced nationwide to facilitate consistent travel concession entitlements for all tertiary students in Australia. Education spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she wanted concession rates extended to all tertiary students ...

There are signs that the federal government’s income support package could be headed the same way as its campus amenities package. This is despite Julia Gillard’s concession to gap-year students last week – and even though the income support revamp ...

The federal government risks more harm to international education if it’s too heavy-handed in regulating the use of agents, according to the peak body for English language training colleges and professionals. Sue Blundell, executive director of English Australia, said unnecessarily ...

The study of languages from primary school would engender understanding and compassion, writes Stephen Connelly. When I lived in Malaysia, my picture was often in the local newspapers, either on advertisements for the college at which I worked or attached ...

Practice-led research is changing how we approach humanities research. Now we need to consider what this might mean for ways in which the humanities evolve in universities, says Graeme Harper. Universities in Australia and Britain discuss it regularly, though the ...