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First it was TEQSA’s turn. Now the vocational regulator’s legislation appears to be headed back for the drawing board. The government may be forced to recreate the legislation for the national VET regulator (NVR) from scratch, with legal advice suggesting ...

There is no quick fix to the skills shortage, says John Mitchell. The recent floods in Queensland have led to headlines around Australia that rebuilding the damaged sections of the state will be slowed down by the lack of skilled ...

AUQA does not usually mention individuals when it audits education providers. There must be something special about the director of QIBT. The Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) has taken the rare step of commending an individual in one of its ...

Sections of ALP regard universities as no more than glorified skills factories, writes Paul Rodan In the recent Victorian election campaign, the parlous condition of the state’s leading export industry, international education, received virtually no attention from political parties or ...

The Commonwealth has vowed to assert its regulatory rights over large WA and Victorian VET colleges. The federal government will use its constitutional powers to override any attempts by Western Australia and Victoria to stop it assuming regulatory control of ...

New requirements for visiting academics to be sponsored have stymied international research collaboration, a House of Representatives inquiry has heard. A “rigid and difficult” visa system is depriving Australia of international academics and higher degree research students, according to submissions ...

Melbourne University last week released its response into a review of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music – but it still has to plug the $6 million annual funding gap. The upcoming federal and Victorian elections appear to ...

Can VET and higher education get on better outside of the academy, asks John Mitchell. Almost every time the subject of collaboration between VET and higher education arises, the conversation gets tangled up in the differences between the two sectors, ...

Australia’s economy is going gang-busters again, but some sectors are continuing to slide – with implications for training. Australia is poised to rediscover the boom conditions of early 2008, but some sections of the economy – notably manufacturing – have ...

Monash University has spent $2 million on a range of software tools that will help the university make the transition to a shared services model, writes Beverley Head. As the name suggests, shared services in a university context refers to ...