In this fourth and final part of the series on industry’s view of training product design and development, we discuss how the development process can be improved without throwing the whole system out yet again. Importantly, and despite the current ...
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The Industry View, part 3: too many qualifications in VET?
One of the criticisms of VET is that there are too many qualifications, many of which have few to no enrolments. While on the face of it, this can be seen to be true, we need to be very clear ...
More »VET transparency and accountability more fallacy than fact, or ‘when all else fails, tell the truth’
This article concerns ‘transparency and accountability’ in the national vocational education and training (VET) sector. The theory is that transparency begets accountability, that stakeholders make better decisions if better informed, and in aggregate this has quality and efficiency benefits. This analysis ...
More »The Industry View, part 2: employer views of VET and implications for training product reform
In this second part in the series on industry views on training product reform, we tackle head on calls by non-industry stakeholders for VET to be more broad-based instead of being specifically job facing. Over the last decade there have ...
More »The Industry View, part 1: skill standards – more than just a name
One of the first priorities for the new National Cabinet Reform Committee on Skills, being the old Skills Ministers forum, is to identify a reform direction for Training Product Design and Development. In the first of four articles, I put ...
More »CDU announces course and job cuts to its VET sector to ‘balance its budget’
Charles Darwin University yesterday released a plan to balance its budget through $9 million in savings after six weeks of consultation with university staff, industry and the NT government. The university’s plan to unify Vocational Education and Training (VET) and ...
More »What does a Biden presidency mean for Australian post-secondary education? Opinion
Much of the world was rivetted as the results of the United States presidential election played out live on screen last week. President-elect Joe Biden has identified four immediate priorities: confront the Coronavirus pandemic, promote economic recovery, advance racial equity and tackle the climate crisis. While ...
More »Australia to lose half of its international students by 2021: Mitchell Institute
New modelling by education policy think tank Mitchell Institute at Victoria University shows a 50 per cent drop in Australia’s international student numbers by mid-2021 if the country’s borders remain closed. The 50 per cent drop, which equates to roughly ...
More »Former HSC chief examiner recommends 5 productive pedagogies for writing in the senior years and beyond
Australian students’ performance in writing has attracted a lot of attention this year, particularly in the middle years where NAPLAN results are regularly scrutinised. But, while no one disputes the importance of the middle years, it is the senior years ...
More »Universities Australia and Innovative Research Universities call for exclusions, amendments to foreign relations bill
Australia’s university sector has emphasised the need for further consultation on Australia’s proposed foreign relations bill, with a new parliamentary report reflecting some of the sector’s concerns on international agreement laws. Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation ...
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