Universities around Australia are crowing today at news that they have placed highly in the QS global rankings of courses. University of Melbourne vice-chancellor professor Glyn Davis was pleased to note significant improvement in UniMelb's performance across the board. “We’ve ...
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Early double dissolution election perfect timing for UNSW startup pollsters
Earlier today, the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that parliament would be recalled on 18 April 2016 for an early Budget on 3 May 2016, clearing the path for a double dissolution election on 2 July 2016, should the senate ...
More »Noonan addresses financing, image problems in VET policy paper
The VET sector has been in the spotlight recently due to pernicious practices by some providers and the exit from the industry of a leading institution. Into this environment of broadly negative publicity drops The Mitchell Institute's Peter Noonan's comprehensive report into the ...
More »Open Universities points finger at rivals as it closes VET business
Open Universities Australia revealed on Monday that it would be shuttering its vocational training business Open Training Institute after the current cohort of students completes their courses. No new enrolments will be accepted. Courses offered by OTI included accounting, administration, human resources, ...
More »OTI shuts off new enrolments
The Open Training Institute – Open Universities Australia’s VET arm – has announced it has closed off new enrolments, permanently. Paul Wappett, OUA chief executive, said the scandals which have rocked private VET and down turning demand have undermined the business's future. OUA will ...
More »What’s SUP? Bond researching trendy stand-up paddleboarding
One of the advantages of being an assistant professor at Bond University is that you are based in the heart of the Gold Coast – surrounded by water, as Dr James Furness puts it – indeed, Furness’s stamping ground borders ...
More »Opinion: Stop shonks, then reform VET
Vocational education should be the engine room of a nation’s economy, and one of the bedrocks of a cohesive society. It should prepare people for work. It should foster and encourage innovation, and support employers and workers in workplaces. A ...
More »Australian fashion: report on career prospects needs makeover
A report has identified students’ lack of access to apprenticeships as the cause of a bottleneck in Australia’s fashion industry but one leading educator said the figures “have to be taken with a grain of salt”. IBISWorld's Fashion Backward: Career progression increasingly difficult ...
More »UTAS and Griffith research explains Clive Palmer’s rapid political ascent and whimpering decline
One of the more amusing episodes in mainstream Australia politics has been vividly captured in one of the more amusing scholarly journals that will be published in 2016. Ballots and Billions: Clive Palmer's Personal Party by Dr Glenn Kefford from the ...
More »‘People without jobs, jobs without people’
Rhetoric around youth unemployment must change, an expert has argued. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures rest youth unemployment at 12.44 per cent, although it declined in the last quarter. Debate on the issue has centred on the notion of a skills gap – education ...
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