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Universities are still waiting for an indication of how the government intends to proceed with mission-based funding compacts. The time to reveal more is nigh, writes David Battersby. S ince first being proposed by the Labor Opposition in 2006, the ...

There is now a much greater willingness to address the issue of standards, says David Woodhouse. The report of the higher education review calls, inter alia, for strengthened attention to standards. As the Australian Universities Quality Agency turns 10 next ...

The federal government is changing the guidelines for its apprenticeship rescue package, amid fears that the program is too rigid to save apprentices’ jobs. But some training figures still fear the package isn’t flexible enough to prevent redundancies. Last month ...

VSU was an “outrageous intervention” in universities’ affairs, Universities Australia chair Professor Richard Larkins told the National Press Club earlier this month. But the federal government’s VSU response raises the intervention bar even higher, according to a Melbourne-based higher education ...

It started over breakfast and ended with his resignation. Why Toby Miller quit the University of California Press. I just resigned from the editorial committee of the University of California Press. Most university committees I have served on are boring. ...

What was the main message from the recent Big Skills Conference, asks John Mitchell. In inviting keynote speakers from around the globe to present their views about workforce development, the organisers of the recent Big Skills conference in Sydney expected ...

The two key structural changes to higher education announced last week by education minister Julia Gillard – a student entitlement funding system and a national regulatory and quality agency – will relieve some of the main “pressure points” in the ...

New research throws light on the role of course materials in helping or hindering international students, says Jonathan Sibley.ge ability continue to generate comment in the popular and the academic press. Most universities provide some form of learning support for ...

How do we know whether TAFE colleges are effective? By John Mitchell. A question raised at the Big Skills Conference in Sydney last week by speakers such as Dr Song-Seng Law, the former director of the award-winning Institute of Technical ...

The Bradley report’s calls for massive funding boosts may hit a road block in the Canberra bureaucracy because finance officials are believed to be unconcerned by the level of cross-subsidisation. Bradley’s big-ticket recommendations – a four-year $1.8 billion increase in ...