Deakin University’s Business School has emerged triumphant from a five-year bureaucratic gauntlet with an international accreditation that inducts it into the top 5 per cent of business faculties worldwide. The school has been stamped with and Association to Advance Collegiate ...
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TAFE NSW requires overhaul: consultancy
TAFE NSW needs to amp up its efficiency to remain competitive in the growing vocational education sector or face financial losses, a report says. The Boston Consulting Group's report into the state's Vocational Education and Training (VET) market found TAFE ...
More »TAFE chairs admit low confidence in federal government
The head of the TAFE chairs' lobby group is “probably not” confident renewed funding and federal policy stability will flow into vocational education by the end of the year. TAFE Chairs Australia is calling on the federal government to guarantee ...
More »Cost of student loans blows out; billions to go unpaid
Higher education costs, for both university and vocational training, have blown out to more than $42 billion, with a quarter of these government-funded HELP loans unlikely ever to be repaid. A 10-year projection for these loans conducted by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) estimates accumulated ...
More »COAG-sponsored review warns against sidelining TAFE
A mid-term review of the federal government’s five-year skills plan – implemented by federal Labor in 2012 – has concluded that TAFE shouldn’t be deemed ‘just another provider’ within the VET sector. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) commissioned ACIL Allen's Review ...
More »Disruption, VET, internationalisation and women in higher education on the agenda at Futureproof 2016
Management, leaders and professional staff from universities, TAFE institutes, private providers, professional associations, regulatory bodies and government are encouraged to attend Futureproof 2016, a vital meeting of minds to discuss and debate the major issues affecting the higher education sector. ...
More »Minister on roadshow for VET FEE-HELP reform
Senator Scott Ryan, the minister for vocational education and skills, has embarked on a six-city roadshow to consult and discuss ways to improve the deeply flawed VET FEE-HELP scheme. Kicking off in Perth, Ryan is visiting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns. ...
More »AIPE targeted poor, disabled students with false claims: ACCC
The Australian Institute of Professional Education (AIPE) "made false or misleading representations and engaged in unconscionable conduct", including the targeting of socially disadvantaged people and the intellectually disabled, in promoting vocational higher education courses covered by the federal government's troubled ...
More »Strictly speaking | Patch
Patches have been put to many purposes over the centuries of the word’s use, so that they may “repair, strengthen, protect, or decorate” a surface (Oxford English Dictionary online). In the 17th and 18th centuries, they could be a form ...
More »Labor joins opposition to lowering HELP repayment threshold
Federal Labor has rejected the Grattan Institute’s call to lower the HELP repayment threshold to $42,000. HELP for the future: fairer repayment of student debt, argued for the threshold to be lowered from $54,126 to $42,000 in order to curb ballooning debt from ...
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