The removal of price controls on vocational education and training, such as in Victoria, has sparked a race to be the cheapest. By Leesa Wheelahan. In Victoria, TAFE will lose approximately $290 million of funding in 2013. The Victorian government ...

High rates of attrition in some bachelor degree programs at a Victorian TAFE are not as unusual as they might seem, says the institute’s chief, but could be reduced if students had access to Commonwealth funding. Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, ...

The Group of Eight universities dominate Australian research activity, support and commercialisation but the organisation says that under current government policy they may not be able to compete internationally in future. The Go8 policy note titled "Research Performance of Australian Universities", ...

In recent months Skills Victoria’s experimentation with market-based VET funding has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Despite attempts by the Victorian government to maintain a positive narrative, stories have emerged in the Victorian Parliament and in ...

David Gonski and Denise Bradley need to talk. That might be the best way to sum up comments by university educators when asked for responses to Gonski’s landmark Review of Funding for Schooling. Released last week, the report contains the first ...

If you are building a pathway, you need a map. At least that is the clear finding of research into how to create successful pathways from vocational education training into higher education. Across Australia, universities, private providers and vocational training ...

A study casts doubt on the belief that students from disadvantaged backgrounds use up more resources at university. Recent research at La Trobe University’s Equity and Student Services Division questions whether the current costs of educating low socio-economic status (SES) students are higher than for their peers.  Over ...

Alarmed at proposed cutbacks at a high-performing University of Sydney science centre, former deputy director Guy Cox appeals for a re-think. In 1975 I joined the then Electron Microscope Unit (now the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis) at the ...

A stellar international academic career was not enough to convince the Australian science and medical community of the worth of now prominent brain surgeon Charlie Teo. Teo, whose Australia Day 2012 address was reported widely for his concern about a growing ...

Christmas presents in the form of a federal government spend of $377 million under the Structural Adjustment Fund came just in time for universities across the country. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the money would fund 11 new projects in ...