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EIF to provide economic stimulus The second round of the Education Investment Fund opened last week, with barely a fortnight allowed for eligible higher education and VET providers and research institutions to submit applications, which are due by 2 March. ...

Does VET pedagogy prepare students for success in a global economy, asks John Mitchell. One of the awkward questions raised by the forthcoming Big Skills conference in Sydney is whether Australian VET is truly world class. In the past there ...

First fee-free childcare students begin their courses The first cohort of childcare TAFE students to have their diploma course fees waived by the federal government began their courses this month. From this year fee-free courses will be offered to an ...

At least 20 new university campuses will have to be built in outer suburban areas to accommodate the 284,000 additional students anticipated students to swamp the sector in the wake of the Bradley review. In her review of higher education ...

Tasmania’s new-look VET and senior school system is in chaos, according to the state branch of the Australian Education Union (AEU), with staff shortages, confused reporting lines and people teaching the wrong subjects. But the system’s CEOs say these are ...

Australia may have reached the end of a decade-long trend of school leavers leaning towards jobs instead of education and training, according to preliminary 2009 undergraduate application data released this month by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations ...

Should VET be a feeder to higher education? Indeed yes, says Leesa Wheelahan. Should one of the primary roles of vocational education and training be to prepare students for higher education? The Bradley review says no, because this would distort ...

What are the benefits of VET students sitting for the same national test, asks John Mitchell. In recent years, some in the VET sector have watched with interest the highly publicised push by the government for national testing in schools. ...

Another Australian technical college, this time at Geelong, has had its future assured following an announcement by education minister Julia Gillard that it will become a technical education centre of the Gordon Institute of TAFE. Geelong TEC will offer c ...

The future of training packages is up for discussion during a month of national consultations starting in Adelaide this week. The ‘VET Training Products for the 21st Century’ project – a comprehensive review of national VET policy, jointly run by ...