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Year 10 students have a right to know about prerequisites for tertiary courses in 2012, writes Elaine Wenn. In his commentary, Conor King put a view that tertiary admissions centres and Victorian universities are adopting an ostrich stance in response ...

Failing private providers send government’s into a frenzy, but what exactly is their role in the free market, asks Conor King. The question of how best to regulate organisations offering tertiary education to Australian or international students is growing into ...

The need to increase revenues and minimise costs places substantial stress on university managers at all levels, writes Cynthia Hansen. Universities have their critics. Some claim they house the protected and the privileged. However, most people who have studied or ...

A market approach to international education should be broadened, says Peter Kell. Australian branding as a study destination is considerably tarnished over recent months. These incidents are not new, and are not unique to Australia, but there is considerable frustration ...

What can be done to reinvigorate traditional apprenticeships, asks John Mitchell. With the current downturn in the economy, there is increased public interest in quickly retraining the newly unemployed and a simultaneous reduction in interest in the traditional four-year apprenticeship. ...

Catholic Education to take over two ATCs Catholic Education South Australia has taken over the Australian Technical College-Northern Adelaide, while the ATC in the city’s south is expected to be signed over by the end of the month. The federally ...

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is willing to expand its scope and embrace the whole tertiary sector, as recommended by the Bradley review. And an integrated statistical system incorporating both higher education and VET will be an ...

Grammy-winning producer heads QUT musices at RMIT RMIT University has appointed Professor David Hayward as the new dean of the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning. An economist and sociologist, Hayward comes to RMIT from Swinburne University, where ...

In a study that could be instructive for Australian universities, Israeli academics are torn by conflicting attitudes towards the marketing of their universities and their own roles in that marketing process. h; and to achieve that, we needed to develop ...

University marketers have been alert to social media as a key medium to get the message out. Ads in newspapers haven’t quite disappeared, but YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and, increasingly, Twitter are all now commonly integrated into the marketing mix.tin and ...