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The government wants breadth and depth, but a seminar last week heard the means by which this will be achieved are unclear. By Kerri-Lee Harris. Universities greeted the federal budget announcements last month with uncharacteristic enthusiasm. Many celebrated major infrastructure ...

Telltale signs of boredom or intense sense of purpose? How do you engage at staff meetings, asks Joseph Gora. While it is doubtful that anyone with a smidgen of insight would say they like staff meetings, these tortuous rituals can ...

How can training providers craft successful strategies in unstable times, asks John Mitchell. In the current period of economic turbulence, a significant challenge facing senior managers of VET providers is to develop new strategies to ensure organisational sustainability and, in ...

Government confirms PPP places open to employers too The Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, Craig Emerson, confirmed last week that the 392,000 Productivity Places Program places allocated for existing workers can also be accessed by ...

Government subsidies to encourage employers to take on apprentices or trainees may be less effective than commonly supposed, according to new research from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. But the report’s principal author, Professor Andrew Smith from the ...

Japan, Hong Kong dominate regional rankings The first ranking of Asian higher education institutions by the British company QS, which also conducts global rankings for Times Higher Education, has revealed that Japan and Hong Kong lead the pack. Hong Kong has ...

The University of Melbourne is the first university to extend its deferral period to two years to accommodate students who have been caught by a tightening of the government’s income support laws.o; Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, said. “Thousands have taken ...

Within five years, at least one in five students recruited by IDP Education will be headed for the US under a new plan launched recently in Los Angeles.uo; Pollock said the proposition for US universities was a compelling one. IDP ...