It’s the small private VET providers who’ve attracted most concern around quality, but they’ve been sidelined from the government’s new quality initiatives. The VET community is universally delighted with the federal government’s budget pledge to directly fund VET providers for ...

A Victorian TAFE chief is experiencing “audit fatigue”, with an average of three external audits a fortnight – some of which produce contradictory recommendations. Excessive and sometimes conflicting audits are making life hard for TAFEs trying to straddle the VET-higher ...

Deakin University has appointed Associate Professor Dineli Mather as its first university-level director of work integrated learning (WIL). Mather has nearly 15 years of experience managing industry-based learning and internship programs within universities, including establishing a very successful industry placement ...

Director of the Griffith Institute for Social and Behavioural Research Professor Ross Homel is the recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s 2010 Thorsten Sellin and Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award in recognition of his “scholarship that considers problems of ...

The new migration skills list has finally been released – but the jury’s still out on what it means. The new skilled occupation list (SOL), which outlines the occupations to be considered under the general skilled migration (GSM) program from ...

Could the Asia-Pacific create its own EU-style higher education zone? The rise of higher education in most of the Asia Pacific is unprecedented, but it is unlikely to lead to a unified, regional higher education system - the equivalent of ...

Trades are back on skilled immigration’s hit-list – and it could be good news for traditional trainers. Trades make up over a quarter of the immigration department’s new list for skilled migration, signalling a possible resurgence of enrolments in the ...

The opposition will kill the PPP as part of its $47 billion budget saving strategy. But there’s a problem: the government’s already killed it. A Coalition government would save taxpayers more than $1 billion by canning the Productivity Places Program ...

It might be goodbye to cooks and hairdressers. But it’s a big hello, once again, to accountants. Accountants are the surprise inclusion in the new hit list for general skilled migration (GSM), with all three occupational categories of the profession ...

UC’s Stephen Parker is putting his money where his mouth is, with work under way to establish Canberra’s own university system. The University of Canberra is going it alone in establishing its own university system – tentatively known as an ...