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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 ...

  One city, two universities. Both are set to embark on redundancy programs, which will shed around 200 academic and general positions. One is being pilloried in the press and hammered by the union; the other is gliding through relatively ...

Pressures on doctoral programs from economic and public policy directions have seen substantial changes in recent years, for both better and worse. Jeremy Gilling reports.   A contradiction is emerging between new research imperatives that drive an innovative economy and ...

Geof Hawke argues that our approach to involving employers in education and training hasn’t made enough allowance for the wide variations among employers.   Once again attention is being drawn to the importance of establishing a means by which employers ...

At the recent ACPET annual conference in Hobart, a respected keynote speaker from Tasmania declared his lack of passion for the TAFE brand and organisation. While TAFE is soon to be dissolved on the Apple Isle, across the Tasman there ...

A fully competitive higher education sector would destroy the fabric and viability of regional universities, says Garry Carnegie.   Regional universities in Australia are key generators of intellectual and social capital in areas outside the major capital cities, and drive ...

A compact university is neither efficient or world class. Dario Toncich explains why systems would work. The word compact has become almost as chic in university circles as the word Prius has become in Hollywood circles of environmentally aware celebrities ...