The end of one annual university cycle typically sees numbers become clearer about what the next will bring. Grants are awarded, promotions decided, targets set in performance plans, after details are confirmed of outcomes in the year just ended.  Other ...

The active COVID-19 situation combined with domestic and international border restrictions put the notion of a mass return of international students to public and private tertiary providers in considerable doubt and uncertainty. Commentary on the issue of international students has ...

In this fourth and final part of the series on industry’s view of training product design and development, we discuss how the development process can be improved without throwing the whole system out yet again. Importantly, and despite the current ...

The higher education sector was significantly hit by the pandemic. International borders closed down and international student enrolment dropped. Universities’ revenues fell short of budgets and they went into contraction. COVID restrictions and lockdowns also meant that business as usual ...

Pre-pandemic, higher education was Australia’s third-largest export category, responsible for contributing $37.6 billion to the economy in the 2019 financial year, according to Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan. What a difference a year makes. The higher education sector has been ...

One of the criticisms of VET is that there are too many qualifications, many of which have few to no enrolments. While on the face of it, this can be seen to be true, we need to be very clear ...

With Australia just coming out of recession, it is unsurprising that there has been a strong focus from federal and state governments on addressing unemployment levels and ensuring that our university graduates are able to find jobs.  The Australian Government’s ...

Pascale Quester of Swinburne University of Technology joined the HEDx podcast in partnership with Campus Review at the end of her first 100 days as Vice Chancellor. She reflected on how all universities have the chance to leave the peloton ...

This article concerns ‘transparency and accountability’ in the national vocational education and training (VET) sector. The theory is that transparency begets accountability, that stakeholders make better decisions if better informed, and in aggregate this has quality and efficiency benefits. This analysis ...

In this second part in the series on industry views on training product reform, we tackle head on calls by non-industry stakeholders for VET to be more broad-based instead of being specifically job facing. Over the last decade there have ...