Time’s running out for the PPP, but there are question marks over its replacement. The government has tacitly acknowledged criticisms of its flagship VET program, the Productivity Places Program (PPP), cutting it short by at least two years and ripping ...

Feelings are mixed over the budget’s apprenticeship initiatives. A $20 million budget injection to encourage accelerated apprenticeships has been decried by academics, who say it’s taking the competency-based approach too far. And training providers are smarting over the $31 million ...

What a difference a year makes, as stimulus gives way to stagnation. Infrastructure funding, the big winner in last year’s budget, has been the surprise package again this year – but for completely different reasons. Eight months after applications closed ...

If last year’s budget was about higher education and research, there’s been a warm reaction to this year’s budget focus at the other end of the post-school education spectrum. The federal government’s $119 million foundation skills package – four programs ...

Most international students at private colleges are happy with both their agents and their study experience – and most don’t plan to live here permanently, according to a new survey. Around 86 per cent of international students at private colleges ...

UWS has been fined for acting against their EBA and making a direct appointment. The University of Western Sydney has been fined $10,000 for failing to advertise a vacancy on its website and instead making a direct appointment. The Community ...

Increasing enrolments and limited resources have prompted two NZ unis to close applications. A Maori students’ group has joined a chorus of anger over decisions by two NZ universities to restrict or stop further enrolments this year. Victoria University announced ...

Pound for pound, it’s the world’s biggest education export industry. But the surgery to correct last year’s well-publicised problems may have nicked a few arteries. If international enrolments decline at Navitas’s Australian colleges, there’s a silver lining – a good ...

The federal government is staying silent on Henry review proposals to improve student income support – and it’s not inviting vice-chancellors to a pre-budget pow-wow, either. The government should let students use HECS for some of their living expenses as ...