TAFE directors say the 5000 RTOs in VET are a pool of unclassified entities. TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) is pushing for clear differentiation of provider categories under the recently established VET regulator, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA). In a ...

Mentor teachers receive little or no professional development for the role, says Melbourne's graduate education submission to the funding review. Practical placements are a vital part of all teacher education degrees, but they are under-funded and often poorly structured, says ...

Thousands sign petition to ask government to maintain medical research funding in May Budget. Within a week of its launch more than 7,500 people had signed an ipetition asking the Federal Government to scrap any plan it had to shave $400 ...

On-campus services will never again fall foul of a political argument about student unionism, if UA and the Go8 get their way. Student services and amenities could be safeguarded by mainstream government funding – averting the danger of another VSU-style ...

For years, academics have highlighted the lack of research data about the effectiveness of marketised funding approaches for tertiary education. Now the government has some – and it’s sitting on it. The federal government has sat on a year-old report ...

Ranking bodies will be required to consider all public submission and be transparent unlike in 2010 The ARC is fine-tuning the journal-ranking system to improve transparency and prevent the variations in ranking rigour it says occurred as part of the ...

TEQSA could revolutionise global tertiary education à la HECS in the 80s. The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency is borrowing from the financial industry’s regulator in designing the world’s first risk framework for higher education, TEQSA’s interim chair told ...

There is an opportunity here, not just to shape the direction of the university as a whole, but to allow Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians to embrace the leadership that Australia needs to take it into the next generations: Professor Shane ...

We need to embrace the potential for innovative, potent and cost-effective pedagogies appropriate to living and working in a digital age writes Jim Taylor Current dialogue surrounding the funding of higher education appears to be stuck in an early 20th ...

Several Australian Learning and Teaching Council fellows have been interested in how emerging digital technologies can be used as tools for higher education. At a recent higher education conference, veteran ABC journalist Kerry O’Brien gave an eyewitness account of a ...