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Scott Bowman has a big job ahead of him. And he hasn’t been slow in getting to the task of change, writes Julie Hare. Scott Bowman is an optimist. Just a couple of weeks before taking up a five-year appointment ...

Why are secondary school students so positive about VET, asks John Mitchell. Some experienced practitioners have long held the view that VET programs in schools are token gestures delivered by bored geography teachers who have no knowledge of the world ...

Universities hold the upper hand when determining eligible students and in the process keeping TAFE guessing, writes Sylvia Whitmore. While the TAFE sector’s initial reaction to the Bradley higher education reforms has been largely one of enthusiasm, there is increasing ...

College’s collapse leaves 61 stranded Another private training college in Victoria has collapsed, leaving scores of Australian students in limbo and raising fears that problems in international education have spread to colleges that teach local students, reports The Age. The College ...

TAFEs were the fastest growing higher education providers last year and universities ramped up their vocational offerings, in yet another sign that the distinctions are blurring between higher education and VET. The latest DEEWR ‘Selected higher education statistics’ report, a ...

The NSW and Victorian training ministers next week face the unenviable task of explaining to international students why their respective governments don’t offer transport concessions, in a room full of education ministers from states and territories that do. The three ...

Two board members of Julia Gillard’s handpicked advisory group, Skills Australia, have reportedly joined the chorus of discontent over the federal government’s flagship VET funding program. ACTU president Sharan Burrow and Australian Industry Group chief executive Heather Ridout – both ...

If international students are having a terrible time in Australia, someone apparently forgot to tell them. The experience they recount to researchers has remained consistently positive for around five years, according to the latest survey on international student satisfaction. The ...

Do educators and business people share the same view of e-learning, asks John Mitchell. Over the past decade Australian VET has actively investigated e-learning from the perspectives of policy, theory and pedagogy, but not so much from the point of ...

Tenders called for green jobs corps The federal government has called for tenders to provide 10,000 training places under its National Green Jobs Corps. Parliamentary employment secretary Jason Clare said several changes had been made to the original tender following ...