TAFE NSW will seek allies to help it survive national reforms to the training market, according to an in-house strategy document. The discussion paper, prepared last month for meetings with regional trainers and union representatives, says Australia’s largest training provider ...

A great deal is being asked of Australia’s ageing and highly casualised VET workforce. Not only are they expected to deliver a substantial part of the Rudd Government’s “education revolution” – not least the massive Productivity Places Program – but ...

Australian VET research may no longer be in its infancy, but it has a way to go before it is recognised as having reached adulthood – at least within its own national boundaries. Roger Harris, professor of adult and vocational ...

Training providers who service the needs of enterprises might take a back seat if a model being driven in the Clare Valley gains imitators. The model involves the training provider, River Murray Training (RMT), doing everything it can to hand ...

If you think they’re out to get you, you’re not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought. Surveys of several thousand people in Britain, the US and elsewhere have found ...

A vivid and strikingly illustrated edition of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Powerful, moving, simple and forceful, the Declaration of Human Rights speaks to a common humanity – about hope, about ideals, about the sort of world we ...

Vertical drinking is a term that’s come into use recently in Britain and Australia to refer to the practice of drinking standing up in a crowded public bar. It’s usually associated with binge drinking, as it inevitably involves consumption of ...

Professor Peter Coaldrake, the vice-chancellor of Queensland University of Technology, is the chair-elect of Universities Australia for 2009-2011. Coaldrake has held the position of UA’s deputy chair during 2008, and will assume the responsibilities of chair for a two-year period ...

UniSA vice-chancellor Professor Peter Høj has been made an honorary doctor in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen in honour of his research career in plant biochemistry. The award was recommended by the university’s Department of ...

UNSW has announced the appointment of Jonathan Blakeman to the newly created position of executive director, finance and operations. He is currently director of administration at the University of Auckland, a position he has held since 1999, and was previously ...