The Victorian government experimentation with VET funding is starting to unravel, with the latest revelation that one of its training providers increased its recognition of prior learning enrolments from 1 to 134 in one year. “Blind Freddy could have seen such ...

Student disengagement is growing and there is no improvement in sight, writes Stuart Middleton. Over the next week or 10 days the great education machine of Australian schools grinds into action again for another year. In about 9,500 schools, 184,000 ...

Australian governments should look carefully at the economics of extending welfare entitlements to temporary residents, writes Andrew Norton. Public hospitals refusing to admit pregnant international students. Government schools charging fees to the children of international students. International students having to ...

It’s 4.40pm on a Friday and every student is staring at me attentively. They are not peering at Facebook, they are not tweeting, and there’s complete silence in the classroom. I’d like to say this is because I’m such a great ...

Research in Australia is of high quality and our journals are respected around the world, say members of the executive of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association. Is Australian VET research of high quality? When we think about ...

Talented but unsuspecting VET is being dazzled by the promises of a brighter future, only to be let down by unrealistic expectations, writes Stuart Middleton. It is becoming a recurring theme - the magnetic pull of VET into the all-embracing ...

Milton Greenberg writes that the reasons for lifetime academic positions have been eroded in the US with more staff employed on a contingent basis. The Australian experience bears a striking similarity. It seems that tenure is always in the news. ...

In a comprehensive policy briefing to the Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI), David Williams, executive director of the Victorian TAFE Association (VTA), pulled no punches when he told how the state’s vocational education change agenda was perceived ...

To suggest Victoria is undercutting the role of TAFE is simplistic and not supported by enrolment data, writes Peter Hall. John Mitchell’s less than subtle criticism of Victoria’s training reforms (Campus Review Nov 29, TAFE is central to skilling Australia) ...

There is a growing chorus of voices questioning the wisdom of the changes made to VET funding in Victoria, led by the minister for education in NSW, Adrian Piccoli (Campus Review, October 18) and the federal minister Chris Evans (Campus ...