Online VET provider Open Universities Australia and the federal opposition have called for dodgy private training providers to be shut down and prosecuted. This follows recent testimony before a Senate inquiry into private VET providers that gave evidence the sector is poorly regulated. ...

New Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has raised the possibility of further concessions by the Coalition in its pursuit of higher education reform. Speaking a day after the announcement of sweeping changes to ministerial oversight of the Department of Education and Training as part of a ...

Labor has slammed the Abbott Government for the large decline in apprentices since its election in September 2013. New figures from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research show apprentices in training in September 2013 totalled 417,700. This is compared with ...

Victoria led VET down the path to dysfunction but it is now providing ideas for grown-up solutions while the country’s leaders ramble on. Two totally different future approaches to redesigning the VET sector were tabled in the month of July ...

Completion rates for government-funded VET programs at Certificate I and above have declined slightly, according to fresh data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. The NCVER report, The likelihood of completing a government-funded VET program 2009–13, estimated that the ...

Trades can support the sustainability generation by making environmental concerns a natural part of courses. By Rodney Jackson Environmental sustainability is, perhaps, the number one global issue of our time. While world leaders struggle to reach a consensus on how ...

TAFEs have welcomed a federal government crackdown on poor childcare training, following a report that revealed many courses were too short to enable adequate skills development or assessment. The report, compiled by the Australian Skills Quality Authority, was released this week by ...

Study Group has opened the doors to its newest Melbourne facility developed in response to the rapidly increasing demand for high quality education. Based in the heart of Melbourne’s CDB, the Study Group campus offers natural medicine, massage, beauty and ...

A new effort to create pathways to employment for Victorian apprentices is underway. MAS National has been selected as part of the Australian Government’s $200 million annual investment in the Australian Apprenticeship Support Network (AASN) to provide apprentice, employer and trainee ...

Corruption in the Chinese education system could have a negative effect on the reputation of Australian training agencies and the quality of graduating students, a Griffith University researcher has warned. Dr Rakesh Gupta, a lecturer at Griffith Business School said concerns follow ...