NSW TAFEs are increasing the number of full-fee training places they offer to plug a shortfall in government funding for enrolled nurse education, a federal senate inquiry has been told. Kerry Penton, director of the Riverina Institute, said the rural ...

Apprenticeships should focus on a fair deal and recruit only the most suitable workers and employers, according to new research on why the system is failing in New South Wales. Undertaken for the NSW Board of Vocational Education and Training, ...

When it comes to mergers, unis and TAFEs can calm their nerves by looking at the absorbtion of colleges 25 years ago, writes Stuart Middleton. In discussions it is all very well to know were you want to end up ...

Average nursing clinical placement hours have declined over time as universities try to ease placement and resourcing problems, according to a report released by Health Workforce Australia. While many nursing schools exceeded the required minimum by substantial amounts in the ...

Universities exert tremendous clout buying goods and services, including a reported $200 million a year spent on travel alone sector-wide. But while there are optimistic signs that some universities have recognised the significance of procurement, or the purchasing function, there ...

Alarmed at proposed cutbacks at a high-performing University of Sydney science centre, former deputy director Guy Cox appeals for a re-think. In 1975 I joined the then Electron Microscope Unit (now the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis) at the ...

Over recent years, the education system of Finland has emerged as being amongst the best in the world. Reasons given usually include a small and somewhat homogeneous population, community respect for education as a public good, local autonomy for schools ...

As our campuses begin to welcome the new cohort of students for 2012, tertiary education managers are assessing the dawn of the demand-driven system. Initially the impacts of the new system are likely to be modest as universities monitor their ...

There may be some angst on campuses as institutions gear up to meet the new regulatory deemands. Federal ministers Greg Combet and Chris Evans have now registered the TEQSA Threshold Standards, as required under the TEQSA act. These standards are ...

How the  new national regulator TEQSA uses its power will be all important The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 becomes fully operational on January 29. Higher education providers throughout Australia will become subject to regulation by the ...