The tough reformer promises to tackle the big issues in a review of vocational education and training standards.  A former federal education minister, John Dawkins, intends to sharpen the teeth of the Australian Skills Quality Authority and says a review ...

Our regular columnist Dr John Mitchell interviews one of the more divisive people in Australian tertiary education this week, former federal education minister John Dawkins. In the late 1990s, Dawkins revolutionised the sector. He abolished the “binary system” that distinguished ...