Education professionals this week issued an urgent plea to the government to quarantine university places for Indigenous students against the current funding freeze. The request comes from The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium, whose members say ...

The federal government has launched a national review of teacher registration to improve consistency and teacher quality across the country. Minister for education and training Simon Birmingham said the National Review of Teacher Registration had been endorsed by all states ...

Less than three per cent of university staff think federal policies are taking higher education in the right direction, a new survey has found. The latest National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) State of the Uni survey revealed that not only ...

The transformation of Launceston into an education hub has begun, after the federal government granted $130 million worth of funding to expand the University of Tasmania. The university last year released a master plan for the new Inveresk Precinct, which ...

Australia’s National Apprentice Employment Network (NAEN) has welcomed a new initiative that will promote the range of careers available through VET. The Real Skills for Real Careers project was launched by the federal government today and will champion the benefits ...