Managing the demands of work-integrated intense higher education, by Stephen Billett. A growing concern for many universities is meeting the increasing demand to locate, organise and sustain their students’ workplace experiences for programs with work-integrated learning components. As one senior ...

There is very little difference between old performance measures and the new ones, writes Marcia Devlin. Except in one very important area. And so, round two of the national “debate” about teaching quality is on. The federal government teaching indicators ...

Victorian TAFEs want a stop to new private VET colleges, and more support when they rescue students from failed colleges. Victorian TAFEs have distanced themselves from the troubled private VET sector, calling for a moratorium on new providers and demanding ...

Who needs to pick up the baton regarding the professional development of the VET workforce, asks John Mitchell. The editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald on 21 January put the case for school teachers to be positioned at the centre ...

Changes to the apprenticeship system are a “quantum leap” in training reform. VET figures have welcomed COAG’s decision to reform Australia’s apprenticeship system in line with recommendations from the Australian Apprentices Taskforce. Announcing the changes early last month, COAG said ...

Living and studying in Australia, PhD student Afroz Shah is angered by accusations of racism leveled by the Indian media. Australia is considered one of the safest places on the planet to live, and more so, a favorite educational destination ...

What are the benefits of mandatory standards and compulsory professional development for teachers, asks John Mitchell. There is always controversy when governments propose compulsory basic standards for teachers, no matter whether it is the higher education or VET sector. This ...

Two states will go it alone and regulate their own VET providers – but not those with international students. VET colleges in Victoria and Western Australia will be overseen by the new national regulator if they take international students or ...

We need to denationalise, globalise and humanise the concept of international security, writes Simon Marginson. Death comes to all of us. But in a few special cases, a person’s death takes on a great significance because of its timing within ...

Differences among the Australian states and territories in school-to-work transition outcomes are dramatic, ranging from well above the OECD average to well below. And the differences found in a recent analysis of OECD and ABS data are considerably greater than ...