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We’ve got lots of students wanting to do gaming design and no one wanting to do IT or computing now, but we’ve got thousands of jobs in IT and computing, and about three in game design and lots of graduates.” ...

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TAFE cuts ‘worse for women’

Budget cuts to the state’s TAFEs are twice as likely to disadvantage women, a study by the Victorian TAFE Association (VTA) has found. The analysis, which examined 20 popular courses impacted by funding cuts, found the changes will affect more ...

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Mental health action pays off

Research indicates that improved programs for struggling students lead to better retention rates. Over the past few decades, there has been growing concern in the university community about the rise of mental illness in the student population. With many institutions ...

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Balanced budgets sink public interest

Prominent economist John Quiggin explains why governments are taking funds from TAFE and promoting a free market, despite scandals. By John Mitchell The only solution is for the federal government to take over and to then have a much more ...

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Lessons from a Finnish school

The successful Scandinavian system allows for a good deal of individualised learning for students, writes Stuart Middleton I have been reading an interesting book lately, Finnish Lessons by Pasi Sahlberg (Teachers College Press, NY). It has a wealth of information ...

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Crisis in sector requires national inquiry

The vocational education and training area has the big task of rebuilding confidence after the meltdown in private colleges. The crisis enveloping the Australian training system is intensifying and industry’s unease has triggered the loudest alarm bells. The issues are ...

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They said it!

“Privatisation of the publically-owned TAFE system will drive a stake through the heart of education in Victoria.”Colin Long, the Victorian division secretary of the NTEU, commenting on leaked TAFE cabinet documents that make reference to Homesglen TAFE’s preferred model “premised ...

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Mad cow blood test a step closer

Researchers have discovered that a simple test could detect mad cow disease, and other brain illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. At the moment the only way to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (abnormalities in brain tissue) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, ...

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Greens back private colleges

The Greens say the open training market isn’t to blame for the problems facing vocational education and training, rather insufficient funding is the key threat. Greens higher education spokeswoman Senator Lee Rhiannon told a Sydney conference that private colleges have ...

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They said it!

"It is becoming clear that an Abbott government would push more costs onto students and they should come clean about how high they would increase fees.” Greens senator and higher education spokeswoman Lee Rhiannon commenting on the Coalition’s plan to ...

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