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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 ...

Recession hits apprenticeship starts boom times, people often leave their training before completion to take up well-paid jobs. The NCVER has also released preliminary 2008 figures on students and courses, showing a 2 per cent increase in VET students over ...

Is Australia condemned to an endless cycle of high unemployment alternating with periods of rapid economic growth and skill shortages? Or is there a better way, in which learning and labour flows proceed in tandem? general, reflective learning in VET, ...

Transnational education programs may have peaked a couple of years ago and its hard to tell where this particular corner of international education is headed, writes Stephen Connelly.TNE) programs over the past 17 years. My first experience of TNE was ...

First $5 billion, then $11 billion, then $8.7 billion and now $2.4 billion – these are the fluctuating fortunes of Australia’s capital investment fund for universities and VET.m the HEEF, $2.5 billion from the 2007-08 budget and a handy couple ...

TAFE institutes need to participate constructively in debates about VET reform – rather than acting as “blockers” – and TAFE boards need to give their CEOs the “moral authority” to engage in that public policy debate, according to Swinburne University ...

In his very first job as a fashion designer, Professor Stephen Billett discovered pretty quickly there was a big disconnect between what he had learned at college and the reality of the workplace. In fact, it took years before he ...

While articulation and connectivity between the VET and university sectors are crucial to meet the government’s social inclusion agenda and workforce needs, convoluted and perplexing regulatory requirements and “horse-trading” between the Commonwealth and the states are significant barriers to these ...

Another step towards a unified tertiary education sector was taken last month with the release of a consultation paper on reforming the Australian Qualifications Framework. The paper follows a commitment from education minister Julia Gillard in March to build a ...

What strategies can new entrants use to compete with universities and TAFE, asks John Mitchell.>Most new training organisations or higher education providers identify and then pursue boutique student markets. Typically, they target lucrative niche VET markets in a particular field ...