Two of the ambitious VET targets the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has set may be much closer to fulfilment than they realise. It all comes down to what is and isn’t counted. COAG has called for a halving of ...

Meeting recently in Canberra, state and territory training ministers showed they’re right behind Canberra – six months behind, in some cases. John Ross reports. When Commonwealth, state and territory education and training ministers got together in Melbourne in April, it ...

The Victorian decision not to agree to a national regulator for VET reeks of political incompetence, writes Paul Rodan. It was depressing to read that Victoria and Western Australia were holding out against the establishment of a national vocational education ...

A fast-tracked review will consider whether the federal government’s flagship VET program meets current economic demands. A formal review of the federal government’s flagship VET program, the Productivity Places Program (PPP), will be fast-tracked after the country’s education and training ...

Skills – not schools – are the “overlooked” beneficiaries of the stimulus packages, according to Treasurer Wayne Swan. Most pundits might point to the avoidance of technical recession, the lower than expected unemployment rates, the survival of the banks or ...

Does a tertiary sector simply mean a one-way flow of VET students to universities, asks John Mitchell. Almost a year after the release of the Bradley report, the public discussion of a single tertiary sector often seems to default to ...

Four Queensland TAFEs recognised The International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) has given one of its three awards for best practice or innovation in international education to four Queensland TAFE institutes. The four institutes were Central Queensland, Gold Coast, Southbank ...

Two recent reports have emphasised the non-economic benefits of international students, writes Glyn Davis. Too often the conversation around international students focuses on their financial contribution to universities and to the coffers of state and federal governments. Of course the ...

Victoria and WA have fallen out with the other states and territories over the establishment of a national VET regulator. Victoria and Western Australia emerged as the spoilers over an independent national VET regulator at last Friday’s Ministerial Council for ...

Increased migration processing times are leaving international graduates in limbo, writes Shanthi Robertson. The uneasy relationship between international education and skilled migration has been further strained by new delays to the processing of many applications for skilled migration. In September, ...