How can training providers craft successful strategies in unstable times, asks John Mitchell. In the current period of economic turbulence, a significant challenge facing senior managers of VET providers is to develop new strategies to ensure organisational sustainability and, in ...

Government confirms PPP places open to employers too The Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, Craig Emerson, confirmed last week that the 392,000 Productivity Places Program places allocated for existing workers can also be accessed by ...

Government subsidies to encourage employers to take on apprentices or trainees may be less effective than commonly supposed, according to new research from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. But the report’s principal author, Professor Andrew Smith from the ...

Basic and applied research: a cricketing perspective. By Arun Sharma.per cent held Discovery only and 10.8 per cent held both. The corresponding figures for 2009 are 40.3 per cent, 45.3 per cent and 14.4 per cent. The expansion of the ...

Why qualifications that combine both academic and vocationally recognised outcomes should become part of TAFE’s core profile. By Sylvia Whitmore.qualification that provides both nationally recognised competency-based training and an assured and time-efficient pathway to a higher education qualification. The TAFE ...

Strengthening regional higher education provision is exactly what is needed, but no one yet knows how to achieve it, says Paul Clark.history of development to match the changing economic circumstances of their host city. But as we move to consider ...

Excellence and engagement are the twin pillars for a system of world class university research, write Caroline McMillen and Peter Høj.nge is consistent with the intent to join up the innovation system and to provide the drivers for collaboration across ...

False dichotomies impede a healthy research sector, says Linda Kristjanson.the broader community (notably industry) fails to recognise the potential inherent in a diverse research sector, and the value of current government programs (such as the ARC Linkage, ARC Centres of ...

TAFE is recognised as a quality provider of education due partly to a higher level of understanding of the opportunities VET provides, a research report on community attitudes to Victorian TAFE, published in April, has found.e, they want recognition available,” ...

Can stand-alone universities do anything to help the policymakers dreaming of a tertiary sector, asks John Mitchell.35 or so stand-alone universities? Do they all need to become dual sector organisations? Or is there some way they can remain stand-alone and ...