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Education is about fairness,” then opposition leader Kevin Rudd told the Melbourne Education Research Institute in January last year, marking out a battleground in the forthcoming election. “Australia now needs an education revolution.” Upon which he launched a directions paper ...

Public good has been reinstated as a key objective of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program, under new guidelines revealed by innovation minister Kim Carr when he announced the latest CRC funding round late last month. Carr said the new-look ...

As cannier parents seamlessly guide their children from community day care to public primary school to private high school to Group of Eight university, will the outcomes of the Labor government’s education revolution finally change the nature of the debate ...

While a nod may still only be as good as a wink to a blind horse, VET insiders with even half an eye to the recent public comments of influential policymakers should have a strategic advantage over their more myopic ...

Australian universities might fly high in the eyes of US citizens, but a move by the influential US News & World Report to adopt the THE/QS global rankings could ultimately draw attention to the questionable methodologies used to rank them. ...

Making sense of data can be a survival skill. University administrators have to make accurate budget and planning decisions; they have to meet the expectations of students, researchers and academics; they have investment portfolios to manage; and must cope with ...

The velocity with which the government is heading toward a fully contestable market for VET is breathtaking. Yet Robin Ryan reveals historically there is no evidence to justify the direction.   The Rudd Government has been subject to considerable criticism ...

Historian, social and political commentator, writer and broadcaster Professor Ross Fitzgerald has joined ACU National as a part-time professorial fellow within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Fitzgerald’s books, both fiction and non-fiction, span subjects as diverse as ageing, the ...

The Education Investment Fund (EIF) and other major federal infrastructure funding schemes face a dark future, after Treasurer Wayne Swan last week cast strong doubts on whether they’d receive the extra allocations foreshadowed in this year’s budget. Releasing the Mid-Year ...

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 ...