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 ...

CampusReview · Sharpening Strategy and Recognising Staff: HEDx Podcast, Episode 12 In this episode of the Higher Education Experience, Western Sydney University VC Barney Glover outlines his assessment of where the sector is up to and how WSU is looking to ...

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 ...

A key chemical in marijuana does not impair a person’s ability to drive, an international study involving the University of Sydney has found. Of the two main components in cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), CBD does not have an impact on ...

“Some units that I have taken in the past seemed to be useless to my course." This is a statement provided by an undergraduate student when prompted to reflect on their studies during a trial of a new curriculum mapping ...

An Australian scientist has made a surprise anti-ageing breakthrough. University of Sydney Associate Professor Tony Cesare said he found “the most unexpected result of my career” in a study of stem cell immortality. The team co-led by Cesare said they have ...

As we enter December, we are bringing to a close many of the internal changes demanded of our universities by the happenings of 2020.  Our “return to campus” plans are getting advanced, we are opening internal borders, the success of local ...

** Updated 6.40pm ** Staff, students and community representatives converged on the University of Melbourne’s vice-chancellor’s home today to demand a settlement to underpayments to 615 Faculty of Arts casual teaching staff, totalling nearly $6 million. However, an impromptu and ...

One of the first priorities for the new National Cabinet Reform Committee on Skills, being the old Skills Ministers forum, is to identify a reform direction for Training Product Design and Development. In the first of four articles, I put ...

The world’s top 10 universities offer fewer than average sustainability courses when measured against a pool of global institutions. That’s according to sustainable energy organisation EIT InnoEnergy, which looked at the standalone sustainable educational output of 27 institutions across Europe, ...