Domestic and global factors collide to create the perfect storm in Australian higher ed Bruce Muirhead writes In 1967 in a piece entitled ‘The future of teaching’ American scholar William Arrowsmith declared that universities were as “uncongenial to teaching as ...

Skills reform in Victoria still a work-in-progress writes David Battersby In his piece on Victoria exempts apprentices from up-skilling rule (Campus Review, 27 September), John Ross is probably premature in postulating that this measure may get the community on side ...

Is a broadband the only type of network needed in regional Australia, asks John Mitchell. The national broadband network is being hailed as a major infrastructure investment in regional Australia, but is it enough? From a VET sector perspective, are ...

British universities may be forced to cull international student numbers. And if so, they’ll have to knock off the profitable ones, writes John Ross. About ten years ago I went to England with my Spanish girlfriend, who spoke little English ...

Higher education should have accepted the skills challenge rather than fight a rearguard action to protect its patch, writes Stuart Middleton. At last, I thought, one of the English-speaking education systems has got it right. The incoming government of Julia ...

Tenure is a risky business for universities argues Professor Raymond da Silva Rosa. Close to fifty years back, the president of a US university predicted "an end to the tenure principle" and, as a result of its abolition, "better teaching ...

Learning to change has never been easy writes Annette Blackwell I am privileged to take on the role as editor of Campus Review in my new position as editor in chief of APN’s educational media. The publication is highly regarded ...

Higher education should have accepted the skills challenge rather than fight a rearguard action to protect its patch, writes Stuart Middleton. At last, I thought, one of the English-speaking education systems has got it right. The incoming government of Julia ...

With numbers this tight in Canberra, VET doesn’t need to be sexy to be heard, says John Ross. Political parties have always been on pretty safe ground when they ignored vocational training. Journalists – mostly university-educated these days – tend ...

Completion rates are, in the simplest sense, the proportion of people who finish a qualification they started. But what rate can be considered a good rate, asks David Roberts. There are at least two reasons why completion rates are presently ...