Is the VET system capable of engaging small business people, asks John Mitchell. A large number of people in the Australian workforce who have been let down by the VET system are small business people. This was glaringly obvious to ...

VET’s future is best positioned in a federally funded tertiary system, according to former DEEWR deputy secretary and outgoing TVET Australia managing director Jim Davidson. Davidson said VET was facing increasing pressures to cooperate both above and below, as schools ...

Is it easy to reinvent a TAFE institute, asks John Mitchell. Can TAFE institutes reinvent themselves? This is a pressing question for the sector as it moves towards a market-based framework in the next few years in most states and ...

International students at the Austech were reportedly offered incentives to pay thousands in tuition fees just days before the college collapsed at the end of last week. Hundreds of international students including many Indians were reportedly crowded outside the main ...

Teacher quality is very much part of the education revolution. So why is it that nearly 60 per cent of the TAFE workforce have no teaching qualifications, writes Pat Forward. For those in the TAFE sector with a keen interest ...

A review 10 quality audit reports for private higher education providers reveal some startling similarities, writes Hilary Winchester The higher education sector in Australia has changed dramatically in the past decade. Three significant changes have been the development of quality ...

Awaiting the unintended consequences of the next phase of the immigration-migration nexus, Paul Rodan ponders interpretations of the recent past. Recent immigration policy changes relating to international students can be seen as representing the success of the views of Monash ...

Will dual sector universities lead the tertiary sector on governance arrangements, asks John Mitchell. With more TAFE institutes offering degrees and an increasing number of private providers straddling the divide between VET and higher education, new governance issues are emerging ...

VET courses do more for unemployed people with disabilities than for other unemployed people, according to a new study. People who have disabilities do much worse in the labour market than people who don’t. That’s one of the unsurprising conclusions ...

Most of the challenges Australia faces have their roots in poor educational experiences. We need to invest in a new approach that recognises the multitude of skills children need to thrive in a modern society, writes Elaine Henry. There is ...