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Improved indexation, arguably the Bradley review’s most important recommendation, now appears assured. A properly indexed, demand-driven funding system for higher education moved a step closer to reality last week, with both houses of parliament rubber-stamping an amendment to the Higher ...

What justifies educational technology asks John Mitchell. The major flexible learning program in Australian VET, the Australian Flexible Learning Program, is being evaluated externally. Perhaps this is the ideal time to develop a new rationale for the use of technology ...

Opposition moves to wind back the Youth Allowance reforms appear unlikely to succeed – but the rural independents’ support spells more trouble for the government. The Federal Opposition has capitalised on the government’s lower house minority to reopen the Youth ...

Group of 8 critics are disappointed over the ongoing questioning of the Bradley review, writes Dani Cooper. The Group of 8 has been accused of “self-interest” in its latest attacks on the Bradley review and its call for deregulation of ...

UA’s chair has been elected to head the governing body of a unique OECD think tank. Professor Peter Coaldrake, the Queensland University of Technology vice-chancellor and Universities Australia chair, has been given the leadership of a unique Organisation for Economic ...

While it may seem the rankers are battling to outrank one another, QS’s Nunzio Quacquarelli writes that it very much depends what users are looking for. In the past three months, a number of researchers of global university rankings have ...

Are reasons for non-completions worth examining, asks John Mitchell. The discussion paper recently released by Skills Australia, Creating a future direction for Australian VET, raised some immediate controversies, (Campus Review Vol 20, No 21) but one particular section of the ...

With the Australian Teaching and Learning Council awards announced next week three former winners Mark Israel, Iain Hay, Lisa Emerson take a wry look at impacts on their careers Prepare an acceptance ‘speech’. Those who get to deliver an acceptance ...

Changes to UK higher education could help shift the international education balance back in Australia’s favour, without unbalancing research. Forthcoming changes to the UK’s higher education system could give Australia a competitive edge in education exports without affecting the potential ...

Change is on the way in vocational education writes Robin Ryan. Those of us who have been predicting and proposing new ways of managing the sector’s institutional structures and policy settings are being rewarded with signs of significant change. A ...