Educational attainment of parents will be used as the indicator of socioeconomic status, but it’s not the whole story, says Trevor Gale. What level of education did your parents reach? That’s the question the joint DEEWR and Universities Australia ...
More »Victoria announces international taskforce members
Victorian skills minister Jacinta Allan last week revealed details of the taskforce that will examine the state’s international education sector. Allan said the taskforce’s findings would feed into the development of an international education strategy, designed to maintain the state’s ...
More »Closing the divide
What is needed for TAFE to take its place as a higher education provider, asks Leesa Wheelahan. TAFE institutes now offer degrees and associate degrees in five states in Australia. We are no longer discussing whether TAFE should offer ...
More »Quality concerns escalate
Many providers committed to delivering quality training are concerned about the future direction of VET. Their concerns were brought to the surface recently by the low prices offered per student by the Commonwealth for the Productivity Places Program (PPP). For ...
More »The shark and the virgin birth
Scientists have confirmed the second case of a virgin birth in a shark. In a study reported today in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female blacktip shark in a ...
More »Achieving cohesion between yin and yang
In the second and concluding article, Katherine Polkinghorne helps universities negotiate their way around Chinaese-Australian cooperative structures. As discussed in Campus Review last week, the Chinese education sector is highly regulated and increasingly scrutinised by the Chinese government, particularly ...
More »EBA negotiations stumble as management hands out pay rises
At least five universities will pay management-initiated, non-union increases, ranging from 2.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent in 2009, while EBA negotiations across the sector stumble in a period of uncertainty in the lead-up to the Bradley review and ...
More »The export that keeps on giving
International education may be the undisputed heavyweight of Australia’s export service industries, netting $13.7 billion last financial year alone. But earnings even of this magnitude could be dwarfed by the industry’s flow-on benefits, according to new research commissioned by IDP ...
More »Collecting agencies should collect competitive grants: Cutler
Australia’s publicly funded researchers, already vying with their international peers for competitive grants, may soon run into competition from a new quarter – museums, libraries, galleries and herbariums – after innovation review chair Dr Terry Cutler urged funding bodies to ...
More »Education more than just great trade: Mortimer
The recent Review of Export Policies and Programs has significant implications for the post-secondary education sector, even though none of its 73 recommendations specifically refer to it. However, with a central theme of expanding Australia’s productive potential while removing the ...
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