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In a new series at Campus Review, we visit with academics and researchers to discuss their studies. To Hobart today with Amy Edwards – zoologist, ecologist and animal lover formerly of UQ, now at UTas and heading to La Trobe. CR: Where ...

VET is crucial for a skilled national workforce, but it was largely ignored in the federal election campaign; a proper review can change that. Despite the crisis in the sector, VET didn’t gain much traction as an election issue in ...

Leading representatives from the University of Melbourne, Edith Cowan University, Swinburne University of Technology, Southern Cross University, University of Newcastle, University of Southern Queensland and the University of Sydney will converge on Doltone House in September for an engaging, entertaining and vital ...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's new Cabinet has been broadly met with praise from the education industry, though the shuffling of the Vocational Education and Training portfolio, from Scott Ryan to Karen Andrews, has chagrined some corners of the VET sector. ...

Professor John Fazarkerley has commenced today as the new dean of the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Coming to the windy city from the United Kingdom, were he was the director and CEO of ...

Australia’s competitiveness in the future international marketplace and ability to cope with digital disruption will depend largely on the VET sector delivering STEM training to the workforce, a new report has argued. The report, The VET Era: Equipping Australia’s workforce for ...

A national report on the effectiveness of reform politely reveals numerous policy failings. As a consultant in VET for the last 24 years, engaged by many government clients, I have often seen examples of game-playing by those clients. For instance, ...

If federal public policymakers lack the knowledge and in-house experience related to VET, how can they address its problems? If you have spent the last 40 years in the vocational education sector, like I have, you will be used to ...

A new report shows that to simply maintain current participation rates in higher education and VET, both sectors will need rapid enrollment growth throughout the coming years. Participation rates, in this context, refers to the proportion of people who are either ...

The federal government lays VET FEE-HELP’s failure at Labor’s feet, conveniently ignoring its own policy shortcomings since 2013. What does a government do when the whole country knows its policy has failed? In the case of the current federal government ...