VET will buddy up with higher education (HE) to help make Denise Bradley’s integrated tertiary sector a reality, predicts Philip Bullock, chair of Skills Australia. But VET’s main players may struggle to integrate with each other, Bullock told a Sydney ...
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Economic downturn affects US study abroad plans Applications to many overseas study programs this northern summer and autumn are down, and the economy may be to blame, according to a survey of study-abroad directors in US universities. More than half ...
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Loneliness and bad jobs a real pain in the back If you are unhappy with your job or live alone, chances are you will take longer to recover from lower back pain than your less stressed and better supported counterparts, ...
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Two-way prejudice: outdated perceptions hamper higher education in TAFE
While academics often dismiss TAFE as a low-status alternative to university, new research suggests TAFE staff can be equally dismissive of university education – with both views often based on decades-old perceptions rather than present-day realities. Research into higher education ...
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The tertiary education rank will become less important as a university entry gatekeeper in the post-Bradley world. And people who work in tertiary admissions centres (TACs) should start sprucing up their CVs, according to the vice-chancellor of Swinburne University, Professor ...
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Pink batts, local mayors and cash handouts under the federal government’s economic stimulus package had robbed the higher education sector of a much-needed funding boost, according to Opposition education Christopher Pyne. Pyne told last week’s Higher Education Congress in Sydney ...
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Is the transition between VET and the university sector a case of spanning bridges or crossing moats full of crocodiles, asks Ros Brennan Kemmis. In her speech of 4 March, Julia Gillard commented that in terms of Australia’s productivity and ...
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With the release of COAG’s workplan, Damon Anderson reflects on the skills reform agenda and finds it lacking imagination. We are purportedly in the midst of an education revolution involving major investment in school infrastructure and revitalisation of higher education. ...
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