Australia’s medical deans say enough is enough, and call for a temporary halt to new medical schools and the expansion of existing ones. In just a decade, Australia has added nine new medical schools, with the number of domestic medical ...

Australia’s economy is going gang-busters again, but some sectors are continuing to slide – with implications for training. Australia is poised to rediscover the boom conditions of early 2008, but some sections of the economy – notably manufacturing – have ...

Group training has to think big, according to John Buchanan. The group training model should be extended beyond trade apprenticeships to professions such as engineering and medicine, an industrial relations expert told last week’s Group Training national conference in Adelaide. ...

The bold American graduation initiative is the latest victim of health care congressional backroom deals, writes Martin Riordan. The Obama administration’s passage through Congress of the historic health care insurance reforms has masked unexpected big cuts to the 2010 budget ...

Income-contingent loans need to be simple and well understood. But if Victoria’s TAFE experience is anything to go by we can’t assume students will sign up for them anyway. The ability of income-contingent loans to help encourage tertiary education participation ...

It’s publish or perish, more than ever, and the co-editor of a new book on the subject says it’s raising big challenges. The ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) is exerting unprecedented pressure to publish, and it’s causing headaches for ...

Claims that the government has used the EIF to pork barrel funds into Labor electorates overlooks the simple fact that 75 per cent of universities are actually located in Labor electorates. Innovation minister Kim Carr has slammed claims that the ...

The students union will conduct its own survey of teacher quality but promises it won’t use them to rank unis. The National Union of Students is hoping to get class sizes and increased funding for teaching and learning on the ...

There are mixed signs from Australia’s first large-scale move into demand-driven tertiary education. Diploma and advanced diploma enrolments have slumped in Victorian TAFEs as the settings for the state’s VET reforms clash with its goals of increasing tertiary education participation ...