Do Australian universities provide enough relevant and timely information to potential international students about living in Australia? Paul Rodan investigates. One of the key issues in the current international student debate concerns the accuracy and quality of information provided to ...

Flat out, stressed and no time to think is the lot of the modern academic. Joseph Gora advocates organised rebellion. “A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions”Friedrich Nietzsche “Life is what happens to you while you're busy ...

Victoria spends $16 million on TAFE ad campaign Victorian taxpayers will spend more than $16 million spruiking a new state government policy that has increased the cost of some TAFE courses by thousands of dollars, reports The Age. Under the ...

What can TAFE colleges learn from the business models of private providers, asks John Mitchell. What do you get when you appoint as TAFE institute director someone with only six years experience in TAFE, following previous appointments as marketing manager ...

The innovation agenda appears to have overlooked VET, but it is a potentially powerful research area, says Francesca Beddie. I keep reading that innovation will help us climb out of the economic downturn and onto a path to a more ...

Skills reform could cost Victorian TAFEs more than $50 million over the next three and a half years, primarily because of a quiet move to monthly funding arrangements, according to a confidential email circulated among senior officials in the state’s ...

The federal government’s training commitments under its two recent compacts – the compact with young Australians announced in April, and this month’s compact with retrenched workers – have been quietly absorbed into the government’s pre-existing commitments under the Productivity Places ...

Hysterical reporting in the mainstream media fails to give a balanced view of international education in Australian universities, writes Alan Olsen. As an Australian living outside my country, with an elderly parent and a child in school there, I dread ...

Victorian TAFE institutes have been caught up in a Department of Treasury and Finance edict that severely restricts where they can keep their money – even though they’re part of what the state government calls the “most devolved and autonomous” ...

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