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TAFE earns compensation

Providers deserve payments for community service activities, says John Mitchell. Observers may be surprised by some of the recommendations in the Productivity Commission’s recent draft report on the VET workforce. One is that VET providers, and TAFE institutes in particular, ...

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After this, then what?

There’s no metric for inspiration, writes Dario Toncich. The expression post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) could well be applied to the strategic philosophies being pursued by Australia’s universities and their masters. In recent years, ...

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Unis leaving the land?

The time has arrived for action on agricultural education, write Simon Livingstone and Peter Smith. Food and Agriculture Organisation data from 2008 estimates there are 6.5 billion people in the world, and this is likely to climb to 9.3 billion ...

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Downstream effects

A focus on technology has scuppered old-fashioned technical skills, writes Stuart Middleton. There is a lot of talk these days about technology and its impact on our lives, the role it plays in an information economy and, of course, the ...

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Not such a downturn

If the GFC had never happened, a future Australia would have just 1 per cent more tradespeople, writes Tom Karmel. One of the most obvious effects of the economic downturn on apprentices was the decline in the numbers starting an ...

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Red books don’t mean red faces

Leaking is all the rage. But is it art or artifice, wonders John Ross. It’s been a wet summer, for the media as well as everyone else. On top of a deluge of flood stories, reporters tapped into a steady ...

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Hall’s title at least includes tertiary education

Sections of ALP regard universities as no more than glorified skills factories, writes Paul Rodan In the recent Victorian election campaign, the parlous condition of the state’s leading export industry, international education, received virtually no attention from political parties or ...

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Disciplinarities: the terms of engagement

The problem we are grappling with is that of the Tower of Babel Wherever I go, the minute people’s work cannot be put in a disciplinary pigeonhole they seem to have trouble explaining the basis for it. Increasingly the terms ...

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