The Business Council of Australia has released a discussion paper which proposes an overhaul of the tertiary education sector. The paper, titled Future-Proof: Protecting Australians Through Education and Skills, argues that as the world of work is rapidly changing, Australia ...
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International students falling behind in employment
International students contribute $19 billion to the Australian economy every year, but only 34 per cent of workplaces are hiring them. In light of these figures, Melbourne-based startup Outcome.Life has launched a campaign to highlight the strengths of international students ...
More »VET programs open doors to skilled careers
The VET in Schools (VETiS) program has a high success rate of putting students in jobs, a new study has found. Conducted by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), the study found that five years after participating in ...
More »Good Universities Guide 2018 delivers variegated results
The most in-demand university isn't necessarily the best for students, this year's Good Universities Guide has revealed. While UniMelb tops prospective students' lists, Bond placed first for 'overall student experience'. The results from the Good Education Group's flagship publication were mostly mixed, ...
More »Putting the ‘e’ for ‘entrepreneur’ in VET
Domestic manufacturing has all but disappeared, the mining boom is long over, and jobs like IT support are increasingly being offshored. Meanwhile, innovation is in, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. So, where does this leave ...
More »Education leader praises Asia’s VET sector
In the 1990s, Peter Noonan says, our VET sector was the envy of the rest of the Asia-Pacific. Now, the professor of tertiary education policy at Victoria University's Mitchell Institute thinks it might be the other way round. At a recent Hong Kong-based ...
More »Study shows anaesthetic effective in treatment of depression
Since ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 it’s had various medical and recreational uses. Normally used as an anaesthetic, it has particular value in veterinary science due to its ability to sedate animals without suppressing respiration nor cardiovascular functions. Now researchers at the ...
More »Profile: Campus Review news editor signs off with gratitude and guiding words
This is Campus Review's Profile series, in which we visit with an academic or researcher outgoing news editor to learn more about them and their work. Today, we visit with Campus Review news editor and journalist Patrick Avenell, on his last ...
More »Non-profit education and training providers worst at protecting whistleblowers
Unlike Snow White's seven dwarfs, not-for-profit education and training institution employees may wish to think twice before whistling while they work. A fresh batch of results from the Whistling While They Work 2 project has been released, showing non-profit education and training institutions ...
More »TAFE warns government: ‘Don’t fund uni diplomas’
Following a brief budget uplift, it’s been a tumultuous time for the vocational education sector. TAFE enrolment numbers have plummeted in NSW and Victoria, causing TAFE NSW to announce plans to self-accredit. To make matters worse, the government’s National Innovation and ...
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