The Grattan Institute report that suggests we should consider pay-your-own-way degrees might work if we were all financially secure, but we aren’t. I’ve copped a little bit of stick over comments I made last week regarding the Grattan Institute’s report ...

By focusing on the business of vocational education and training, rather than good training, we are devaluing a once strong system. The ABC 7.30 Report early this month looked at alleged dodgy training in vocational education and training. It explained ...

An eminent economist believes the Victorian training policy mess is an example of a text book model banging up against the real world. Around Australia, treasury officials and policy advisers are sitting on review committees reconstructing the VET sector. Unfortunately, ...

The various sectors in education have become rigid and fenced off, stifling meaningful development of learning as a whole. It was not done lightly when they named the parts of Berlin after the Second World War that had come to ...

Remember economist Rory Robertson who bet Doomsday forecaster Steve Keen a walk to Mt Kosciuszko over house prices not crashing during the GFC? Well he’s at it again and this time he’s taking on University of Sydney nutritionists Jennie Brand-Miller ...

A new study has found that nearly 90 per cent of jilted lovers are guilty of post-break up cyber spying. According to a masters thesis written by a student at  University of Western Ontario, Canada, as many as 88 per ...

The notion that all students can thrive in a similar comprehensive school system is failing and different methods have to be embraced. Make no mistake about it, there is a mood for change. Patience with the performance of school systems ...

The ACCI wants vocational education and training reform to be guided more by industry demand, rather than providers and students. Public confidence in the VET system has again been shaken, as a result of more reports of alleged shonky providers ...

The devil is in the detail for South Australia’s new training initiative The South Australian government’s $194 million roll out of the Skills for All program has stalled as the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology (DFEEST) has ...

The great, open online university with students sitting in front of computers all day does not seem to be as successful as some people predicted. Almost overnight there appears to be the whiff of cultural revolt in the air. It’s ...