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There is widespread belief that the Bradley review of higher education will encourage universities to compete in the market for vocational certificates and diplomas. However, the movement of schools towards the trade-level certificate III is potentially a bigger threat to ...

The adult and community education sector plays a significant role in the social inclusion agenda, says Kaye Bowman.   Governments tell us social inclusion is important. The best future for Australia will rest on its ability to develop the capacities ...

Training in NSW would suffer if the state’s TAFE structure was broken up into autonomous institutions, according to the former federal shadow education minister and current chair of the TAFE Commission Board, Michael Lee. Lee, a rising Labor star before ...

Trade centres in schools: have teachers been forgotten, asks Ros Brennan Kemmis.   The education revolution is a central plank in the Rudd Government’s agenda. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) have agreed on a set of mutually recognised targets ...

Core VET funding will flow to states and territories regardless of progress in market reform, according to the head of the COAG sub-group on skills development. Chris Eccles, chair of the skills and workforce development sub-group of COAG’s productivity agenda ...

The states are yet to decide how they’ll respond to the COAG consultation paper on VET reform, including its contentious market redesign proposals. Queensland’s Department of Education, Training and the Arts told Campus Review it hadn’t finalised its decisions. The ...

Contrary to popular wisdom, new research has revealed a surprisingly high proportion of early school leavers achieve positive learning and labour market outcomes. Furthermore, many of the groups most likely to leave school early have made considerable progress in recent ...

How can a dual-sector university access its genius and gems?   When Elizabeth Harman took up the position of vice-chancellor of Victoria University five years ago, she found a large organisation that was creative but lacking in some other ways. ...

All government vocational education and training funding throughout Australia will become fully contestable and access for equity groups will be downplayed, under a COAG national partnership proposal currently being considered by the state, territory and federal governments. The partnership would ...

You’re 18, you’ve just left school, you know what you want to be. And you know how the tertiary education system works. You know that if you start with an advanced diploma at a vocational education and training college and ...