For social science researchers, there is a strong tension between writing for scholarly journals and more accessible publications, writes Brian Martin. Is one of your goals to communicate to wider audiences? If so, the government’s Excellence in Research for Australia ...

Well-intentioned programs driven by firmly articulated policy can sometimes overlook the human side of what is trying to to be achieved, writes Ros Brennan Kemmis. The employment services program Job Services Australia was introduced on 1 July last yearwith high ...

Victoria’s tertiary education plan could form a bridge between post-Bradley federal tertiary education policy and the strategic plans of Victorian universities and TAFE institutes, writes Catherine Burnheim. The newly released Victorian tertiary education plan offers constructive proposals to develop a ...

Teacher quality is very much part of the education revolution. So why is it that nearly 60 per cent of the TAFE workforce have no teaching qualifications, writes Pat Forward. For those in the TAFE sector with a keen interest ...

A review 10 quality audit reports for private higher education providers reveal some startling similarities, writes Hilary Winchester The higher education sector in Australia has changed dramatically in the past decade. Three significant changes have been the development of quality ...

Awaiting the unintended consequences of the next phase of the immigration-migration nexus, Paul Rodan ponders interpretations of the recent past. Recent immigration policy changes relating to international students can be seen as representing the success of the views of Monash ...

Most of the challenges Australia faces have their roots in poor educational experiences. We need to invest in a new approach that recognises the multitude of skills children need to thrive in a modern society, writes Elaine Henry. There is ...

Toby Miller finds he knows a little more – and a little less – about US history than he suspected. I recently collected my third nationality: in the last week of 2009, I became a US citizen. To do so, ...

There has been much soul searching about the nature of Australia’s international education sector. Now the time has come to look forward, writes Stephen Connelly. Last year will be remembered as the year in which international education in Australia finally ...

Have government promises to get their “foot off the throat of universities” actually occurred or is red tape just endemic to government policy, asks Conor King. “Rather than bureaucratic red tape and micromanaging of inputs, the Australian government will work ...