University study has long been recognised not just as the pathway – in many cases the only pathway – to a range of professional occupations, but also as the key to job security, high earnings and even good health. Indeed, ...

The Australian Institute of Packaging has reached agreement with the Australian Management Academy (AMA), a registered training organisation which specialises in training for the manufacturing, processing, mining and quarrying industries, to administer certificate and diploma qualifications in packaging for the ...

TAFE is being increasingly divided as its workforce skills and student markets develop quite separately. Add to that resilient staff cultures and there is a sense of unease, says Malcolm White. One reason for the ongoing controversy about the role ...

In this period of economic crisis, should the government abandon its encouragement of high level skills? And should it intervene more in VET? By John Mitchell. Anecdotally, many VET providers are experiencing significant increases in enrolments at the start of ...

As talk about retention rises, US rates drop US colleges have in recent years been paying increasing attention to retention of undergraduates but the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that it doesn’t seem to be working. New data shows that ...

Triple P’s effectiveness confirmed The University of Queensland’s positive parenting program (or Triple P) has been found to substantially reduce child abuse if applied community-wide. This is the conclusion of a five-year study of the program led by Dr Ron ...

White to play and win.

A single government response to the Cutler and Bradley reviews is expected to be considered by federal cabinet this week. ***Campus Review** understands that a joint submission to the two major reviews has been developed by the two responsible ministers ...

Truly world-class research is not the preserve of a small number of research-universities, but comes from a widespread array of institutions and less-celebrated departments, according to research conducted by Professor Andrew Oswald, a respected economist from the University of Warwick. ...

Australia has only begun to take international student safety seriously because its immigration program is threatened by the economic crisis, according to a working paper from Monash University’s Faculty of Business and Economics. International education administrators believed until recently that ...