Yale president Richard Levin says the rise of Asian universities will give the west a run for its money. The unprecedented investment in higher education in China is a “positive sum game” for universities in the western elite. Richard C ...

Workforce data for VET lags way behind what’s available on higher education, with studies offering vastly different estimates of how many people work in the sector. While TAFEs provide 70 per cent or more of VET in Australia, a new ...

Regulatory and quality assurance arrangements for higher education and VET should be as consistent as possible. But the opposite is happening, writes Leesa Wheelahan. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has decided to establish separate VET and higher education regulators, ...

How will mission-based compacts help inspire radical reform in teaching and learning, asks Kerri-Lee Krause. Mission-based compacts represent one of three pillars in the federal government’s ambitious higher education reform agenda. A second is that of standards, to be monitored ...

Deferral rates in regional areas are closely related to participation – and something needs to be done about it, writes Andrew Harvey. A recent Victorian inquiry argued that rising deferral rates are the most notable trend in higher education participation ...

Current considerations about regional provision need to have much more substance and potential for impact, writes David Battersby. On the eve of last Christmas, Senator Kim Carr, as the acting education minister, released the latest in a series of discussion ...

What’s so “silly” about having a teaching qualification for higher education, asks Yoni Ryan. In a recent edition of Campus Review (18.01.02)Kerri-Lee Harris dismissed the role of the graduate certificate in higher education as a measure or indicator of teaching ...

The income support proposals pass the policy test, writes John Ross. The ‘no losers’ question is a favourite trick with broadcast journalists these days. Can you guarantee that no Australian worker will be worse off because of your industrial relations ...

Can disengaged apprentices be helped to return to a trade and succeed, asks John Mitchell. The skills shortage in the period before the global financial crisis was so severe that employers were willing to recruit people whom, in normal times, ...

The ELICOS sector has been hit by the latest big college collapse, the Australian branch of a multinational giant, after its bosses took a commercial decision to shut up shop. The late January collapse of yet another private college chain ...