Labor has joined private VET’s peak body in a push for the sector to have a national ombudsman. Rod Camm, Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) chief executive, recommended the establishment of a national VET ombudsman following a ...

The fact that environmental standards are included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership at all is progress, a law expert has said. The TPP is a 12-country trade agreement with the stated goal of supporting economic growth, creating more jobs and raising ...

Domestic students' demand for Open Universities Australia’s MOOCs is soaring. Open2Study, OUA’s MOOC provider, has reported 36 per cent of its students are Australian – doubling since September last year. India and the US are Open2Study’s two leading international markets but ...

Science and maths were brought to life at a recent University of Sydney STEM Day of Inquiry. The event, held late last week, gave 300 Year 9 students from 11 schools across Western Sydney a real-life look at science in action. ...

Education must learn to get better at getting better, an expert has said. In a guest lecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, professor Tony Bryk, president of the US-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, said education fails ...