A Melbourne-based private provider shows that quality begets success. The Melbourne Institute of Technology’s recent joint audit by the AUQA and VRQA is proof that in an industry that has been brought to its knees by crooks and shonks, there ...

A review of New Zealand's 6000 qualifications is likely to see courses change to fit a national qualification but there are no plans to slash the number on offer, tertiary education minister Steven Joyce said last week. In his first ...

International accountancy, IT and business students are odds on to end up in sales and office jobs if they stay on in Australia after graduation. But there’s better news for engineering, law and nursing students. The international students most likely ...

Targets to increase qualification numbers are all very well, but we also need a target to ensure they’re used more effectively, according to Skills Australia.en and 25-34 year old women. Participation is also relatively low among 55-64 year olds of ...

Public and private peak bodies both say funding arrangements and jurisdictional differences are damaging the PPP. Most TAFEs and many private VET providers say funding rates under the Productivity Places Program (PPP) are too low to cover quality courses, according ...

Universities and TAFEs will have to pay in to Bruce Baird’s one-fits-all assurance scheme. John Ross reports. Five industry-run tuition assurance schemes (TASs) and the government’s ESOS Assurance Fund will be rolled into a single “tuition protection service” (TPS) under ...

One in five international VET colleges are on the nose, according to a “guesstimate” from ESOS reviewer Bruce Baird. No one disagrees there’s some dodgy international VET colleges in Australia, but there’s dispute over how many. A few bad apples, ...

A program designed to get regional and research intensive universities working together is struck by a lack of definition. The federal government needs to first needs to define what a regional university is and what is meant by less research-intensive ...

The My University website is not unique – the Germans have been doing it for years. The federal government’s My University website is likely to emulating a German website that allows potential students to compare universities based on the subject, ...

The Baird report offers solutions for Meridian and GEOS-type collapses, as well as low-rent hospitality and hairdressing colleges. The consumer protection fund that finds alternative placements for displaced international students could also be used to temporarily prop up their colleges, ...