Are lasting provider-enterprise partnerships based on low prices or mutual respect?   The following story was told at a recent national forum. It is about an award-winning private training provider in the retail industry and how it is effectively delivering ...

Employers are not natural-born exploiters of young people, says Erica Smith.   In a recent Campus Review (25.11.08), Mark Cully from the NCVER wrote an article about low pay and traineeships. He began by describing an imaginary scenario where an ...

Teachers in Queensland are being told they are at risk of emotionally abusing their students if they use red pen to mark their students’ work. A Queensland education department document also suggests students be given bean bags to reduce stress, ...

Although she started writing early in life, it was not until her 50s that Elizabeth Jolley received the recognition her talent deserved. She won The Age Book of the Year award on three occasions as well as the Miles Franklin ...

With the recent celebration of Thanksgiving in the US, and the imminence of Christmas, it’s timely to consider the name of a bird that is common to both traditions – the turkey. Turkeys don’t actually come from Turkey. They were ...

For the first time a TAFE institute has received approval to offer nursing degrees, potentially opening the door to more VET providers in the high-demand profession, and removing yet another brick from the wall dividing VET and higher education. Holmesglen ...

An inquiry into governance in NSW universities holds little potential in the way of reform, other than a duplication of work in the Bradley review and recent a federal inquiry, according to the convenor of the Universities Chancellors’ Committee. John ...

Conor King, institutional strategist at Victoria Universit,y is to join PhillipsKPA as a principal consultant. He has been with VU since 2006. Prior to that he was director, policy and analysis, with the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee from 1998 to 2005 ...

Charles Darwin University’s Northern Territory manager of the primary industries and community services industry division, Dr Brian Heim, is the winner of the Institute of Trade Skills Excellence Teacher of the Year award for 2008. He was also named agricultural ...

Australian expat Martin Bean has been appointed as the fifth vice-chancellor of the UK’s Open University. Currently general manager responsible for product management, marketing and business development for the Worldwide Education Products Group at Microsoft, Bean has held senior executive ...