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Hall’s title at least includes tertiary education
Sections of ALP regard universities as no more than glorified skills factories, writes Paul Rodan In the recent Victorian election…
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One year on NZ passes tertiary high school legislation
A pathways project in slow motion A day might be a long time in politics but a year is a…
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Disciplinarities: the terms of engagement
The problem we are grappling with is that of the Tower of Babel Wherever I go, the minute people’s work…
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Lies, damn lies, and statistics
Data, when it is used wisely, can frame good questions. When it is used poorly, it can rush to judgment,…
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TAFE gets inside industry
TAFE staff are relocating to industry workplaces, John Mitchell finds. At the start of 2010, a report by Skills Australia…
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Unseamly
The tertiary sector isn’t so much split as serrated, writes John Ross. The only thing the Judean People’s Front hated…
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Education success measures need seismic shift
At tertiary level the completion of post-secondary qualifications is the only acceptable measure. A New Zealand Treasury official once said…
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Distance disadvantage needs a new measure
Current remoteness rating not working writes Mex Butler. Youth Allowance eligibility for regional students is causing much debate, but the…
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Education needs a slogan every ten years
We are living in the decade of accountability writes Stuart Middleton Education seems to need a word or two, a…
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Can teaching quality be ranked agency asks
While it may seem the rankers are battling to outrank one another, QS’s Nunzio Quacquarelli writes that it very much…
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Reversing non-completions
Are reasons for non-completions worth examining, asks John Mitchell. The discussion paper recently released by Skills Australia, Creating a future…
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Ranking the rankers
This year’s global university rankings rankled many in the sector. The dissatisfaction was not confined to Australia, but here we…
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Sound advice on being a winner
With the Australian Teaching and Learning Council awards announced next week three former winners Mark Israel, Iain Hay, Lisa Emerson…
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Student disengagement has to be tackled
Educators need to think about doing things differently Along with the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein is credited with the…
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TAFEs find client needs are changing
Students and industry best judges of sector success, John Mitchell discovers Attend any large VET conference nowadays and it is…
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Time for renewal
Change is on the way in vocational education writes Robin Ryan. Those of us who have been predicting and proposing…
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No Plan B
Browne review has given UK universities an idea of the scale of cuts to their teaching budgets, but research remains…
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Walking a tightrope
This week’s Browne review poses dangers for students. But it’s also treacherous territory for Britain’s new coalition government, writes John…
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The Spanish are coming
John Ross discovers there could be spin-offs for Australian Education from this armada Spain’s World Cup football campaign, according to…
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Effective self regulation
For one vocational education expert AQTF is the minimum standard in a competitive marketplace John Mitchell finds Fortunately, the immediate…
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Sands are shifting in the global education market place
Domestic and global factors collide to create the perfect storm in Australian higher ed Bruce Muirhead writes In 1967 in…
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Fees a fault line in model VET system
Skills reform in Victoria still a work-in-progress writes David Battersby In his piece on Victoria exempts apprentices from up-skilling rule…
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Regional practitioner networks
Is a broadband the only type of network needed in regional Australia, asks John Mitchell. The national broadband network is…
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Not quite international
British universities may be forced to cull international student numbers. And if so, they’ll have to knock off the profitable…
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Battle lines
Higher education should have accepted the skills challenge rather than fight a rearguard action to protect its patch, writes Stuart…
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