Ros Brennan Kemmis on raising the bar on VET teacher qualifications. The quality and success of students are intrinsically tied to the skills and abilities of the teachers and trainers. The prodigious body of research literature on the correlation between ...

The quality and success of students are intrinsically tied to the skills and abilities of the teachers and trainers. The prodigious body of research literature on the correlation between teacher qualifications and quality outcomes for students seems to have been ...

Should outstanding providers of international education pay for the poor practices of others, asks John Mitchell. There is an unfortunate downside to the avalanche of publicity over the past six months about a minority of private providers offering international students ...

Increased fees, coupled with income-contingent loans, could be the only way forward for a stretched TAFE sector, writes John Ross. The Victorian government’s skills reforms are copping plenty of stick from the community, mostly over TAFE fee hikes. “Whatever happened ...

Henry Barnes ponders whether he should call the new professor a chair or wardrobe? As the linguistic secret police will tell you, language in any form is a tricky business. It’s endlessly fluid, subjective and weighed down with those nasty ...

The government has elevated the art of pork barrelling to new heights, by directing infrastructure enhancement funding to the places where the infrastructure already exists, writes John Ross. A special Campus Review investigation has unearthed signs of a carefully constructed ...

The trend towards peer review of teaching is simply a reaction to the current debate on how to assess quality of teaching. It should have been on the agenda years ago, writes David Woodhouse. When I was a dean in ...

New figures show the number of students in VET in schools programs is on the rise, but there’s much room for improvement. The total number of students undertaking a VET in schools program increased by 25 per cent in 2008. ...

This year’s VET Fulbright scholar has workforce development in his sights. If there is one thing that could put the education revolution on hold, it is the ageing workforce. Schools, VET and higher education are all facing an impending crisis ...

Let’s consider letting non-permanent residents sign up for apprenticeships, says the shadow training minister. Australia should consider allowing migrants and overseas students to become apprentices, according to shadow training minister Mathias Cormann. “It would help ensure that training delivered to ...