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The VET professional will more than ever need to be autonomous, independent, critical, appreciative of the broader social and civic goals of education and training while also being a teacher who is intellectually gymnastic, writes Ros Brennan Kemmis. Discussions around ...

Australian higher education enrolments were continuing their dizzy rise in the months preceding the global economic downturn, the latest student data shows. But the rate of growth was declining, according to DEEWR’s selected higher education statistics for the first half ...

Muslim Australians embrace higher education more than their non-Muslim counterparts. But this isn’t translating into economic success, with Muslim households experiencing higher unemployment rates, lower incomes and more child poverty, according to Flinders University professorial fellow Riaz Hassan. Hassan’s findings, ...

Ten years ago, Curtin University established a campus in Sarawak. Now the region is reaping the benefits, writes Julie Hare It’s the snaking line of oil carriers along the horizon that gives the first clue. That and the ubiquitous plantations. ...

Australian universities are adverse to debt, but international credit agency Moody’s suggests they may need to change their tune. Ben Power reports.could be tapping credit markets more to diversify funding sources and bring forward crucial projects. Roane, the author of ...

Skills Australia has given limited support to a call by the Australian Industry Group for the federal government’s $2 billion Productivity Places Program (PPP) to fund training of skill sets as well as fully fledged qualifications. AiGroup policy manager Michael ...

TAFE is better suited to supporting the needs of first-generation and educationally ill-equipped students who will swamp universities if the higher education sector is to meet they key government target of 40 per cent of 24 to 35 year olds ...

Education Australia – the holding company which has a 50 per cent stake in IDP Education – last week announced it would pass on $43 million to its 38 university shareholders. Chair of Education Australia Professor Ian Young said the ...

International education has shown no signs of weakening, but remains overlooked by government, says Stephen Connelly. If Kochie* and Pottsie* think the GFC (global financial crisis) is over, it must be true. Admittedly, Pottsie finished seventh in a field of ...

Half of the trouble with the Ben O’Neill’s article ‘Another equity and diversity campaign’ (CR, 31.03.09) is that it is too bitter. He needs to read a bit more of his George Herbert: “Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes ...